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

Using external tool pandoc and pipe:

def to_markdown(df):
    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
    s = df.to_latex()
    p = Popen('pandoc -f latex -t markdown',
              stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
    stdoutdata, _ = p.communicate(input=s.encode("utf-8"))
    return stdoutdata.decode("utf-8")