Programmatically convert pandas dataframe to markdown table

Question

I have a Pandas Dataframe generated from a database, which has data with mixed encodings. For example:

+----+-------------------------+----------+-----------         


        

Answer 1

Export a DataFrame to markdown

I created the following function for exporting a pandas.DataFrame to markdown in Python:

def df_to_markdown(df, float_format='%.2g'):
    """
    Export a pandas.DataFrame to markdown-formatted text.
    DataFrame should not contain any `|` characters.
    """
    from os import linesep
    return linesep.join([
        '|'.join(df.columns),
        '|'.join(4 * '-' for i in df.columns),
        df.to_csv(sep='|', index=False, header=False, float_format=float_format)
    ]).replace('|', ' | ')

This function may not automatically fix the encoding issues of the OP, but that is a different issue than converting from pandas to markdown.