Print results in MySQL format with Python

Question

What is the easiest way to print the result from MySQL query in the same way MySQL print them in the console using Python? For example I would like to get something like tha

Answer 1

You need to do two passes:

1. Calculate the column widths
2. Print the table

So

table = cur.fetchall()
widths = [0]*len(table[0])  # Assuming there is always one row
for row in table:
    widths = [max(w,len(c)) for w,c in zip(widths,row)]

Now you can print the table trivially.

Remember the string.rjust method when printing the numbers.

Update

A more functional way of calculating widths is:

sizetable = [map(len,row) for row in table]
widths = map(max, zip(*sizetable))