How to show a pandas dataframe into a existing flask html table?

Question

This may sound a noob question, but I\'m stuck with it as Python is not one of my best languages.

I have a html page with a table inside it, and I would like to show

Answer 1

In case anyone finds this helpful. I have gone with an alternative because I needed more customization, including the ability to add buttons in the table that performed actions. I also really don't like the standard table formatting as it is very ugly IMHO.

...

df = pd.DataFrame({'Patient Name': ["Some name", "Another name"],
                       "Patient ID": [123, 456],
                       "Misc Data Point": [8, 53]})
...

# link_column is the column that I want to add a button to
return render_template("patient_list.html", column_names=df.columns.values, row_data=list(df.values.tolist()),
                           link_column="Patient ID", zip=zip)

HTML Code: This Dynamically Converts any DF into a customize-able HTML table

        {% for col in column_names %}
        
        {% endfor %}
    
    {% for row in row_data %}
    
        {% for col, row_ in zip(column_names, row) %}
        {% if col == link_column %}
        
        {% else %}
        
        {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}
    
    {% endfor %}


    
{{col}}

            
                {{ row_ }}
            
        
{{row_}}

CSS Code

table {
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    width: 100%;
}

td, th {
    border: 1px solid #ffffdffffd;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;
}

tr:nth-child(even) {
    background-color: #ffffdffffd;
}

It performs very well and it looks WAY better than the .to_html output.