Is there's any python library to output dictionary in beautiful ascii table?

Question

I have quite huge dictionary in here, which just repeats all over again, and I'm searching for any code to display that dictionary in some ascii table, which would be outputed to command line. At least to have some generated columns for non-dimentional dictionary, and the rest could go as a key:value in cells, something like this:

dictionary = {"column1":{"key":"val"}, "column2": "value" }

=====================
| column1 | column2 |
=====================
| key:val | value   |

it's still better then to see all those u"" {} , in output which is really disturbs when I need that information fast.

Answer 1

you can use prettytable.

t = PrettyTable(['key', 'value'])
for key, val in dictionary.items():
   t.add_row([key, val])
print t

You can also play with textwrap module to split the value on multiple lines (example in this gist). Imagine you want to show the contents of os.environ; results (short version):

+------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|             key              |                            value                             |
+------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|            CFLAGS            |           -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall            |
|                              |    -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector    |
|                              | --param=ssp-buffer-size=4  -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE |
|                              |         -fPIC -fwrapv   -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall          |
|                              |    -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector    |
|                              | --param=ssp-buffer-size=4  -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE |
|                              |                        -fPIC -fwrapv                         |
|             MAIL             |                    /var/spool/mail/damien                    |
|          LS_COLORS           | rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=4 |
|                              | 0;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=3 |
|                              | 0;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;3 |
|                              | 1:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01; |
|                              | 31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:* |
|                              | .dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.tbz |
|                              | =01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm= |
|                              | 01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar= |
|                              | 01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=0 |
|                              | 1;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm= |
|                              | 01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm= |
|                              | 01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svg |
|                              | z=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mp |
|                              | eg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m |
|                              | 4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.w |
|                              | mv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.a |
|                              | vi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf |
|                              | =01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv |
|                              | =01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=01;36:*.au= |
|                              | 01;36:*.flac=01;36:*.mid=01;36:*.midi=01;36:*.mka=01;36:*.mp |
|                              | 3=01;36:*.mpc=01;36:*.ogg=01;36:*.ra=01;36:*.wav=01;36:*.axa |
|                              | =01;36:*.oga=01;36:*.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36:*.pdf=00;33:*.ps |
|                              | =00;33:*.ps.gz=00;33:*.txt=00;33:*.patch=00;33:*.diff=00;33: |
|                              | *.log=00;33:*.tex=00;33:*.xls=00;33:*.xlsx=00;33:*.ppt=00;33 |
|                              | :*.pptx=00;33:*.rtf=00;33:*.doc=00;33:*.docx=00;33:*.odt=00; |
|                              | 33:*.ods=00;33:*.odp=00;33:*.xml=00;33:*.epub=00;33:*.abw=00 |
|                              |   ;33:*.htm=00;33:*.html=00;33:*.shtml=00;33:*.wpd=00;33:    |
|       GJS_DEBUG_TOPICS       |                       JS ERROR;JS LOG                        |
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