A Text Table Writer/Printer for Python

Question

TL;DR -> Is there a table writing module on PyPi (I\'ve failed to find any) that takes in lists as parameters and makes a table out of those

Answer 1

PrettyTable module is what you need:

PrettyTable is a simple Python library designed to make it quick and easy to represent tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables.

>>> import prettytable
>>> x = prettytable.PrettyTable(["Length", "Time"])
>>> x.add_row([0, 0.00000])
>>> x.add_row([250, 0.00600]) 
>>> x.add_row([500, 0.02100]) 
>>> x.add_row([750, 0.04999])    
>>> print x
+--------+---------+
| Length |   Time  |
+--------+---------+
|   0    |   0.0   |
|  250   |  0.006  |
|  500   |  0.021  |
|  750   | 0.04999 |
+--------+---------+

Or, texttable:

texttable is a module to generate a formatted text table, using ASCII characters.

>>> import texttable
>>> x = texttable.Texttable()
>>> x.add_rows([["Length", "Time"], [0, 0.00000], [250, 0.00600], [500, 0.02100], [750, 0.04999]])
>>> print x.draw()
+--------+-------+
| Length | Time  |
+========+=======+
| 0      | 0     |
+--------+-------+
| 250    | 0.006 |
+--------+-------+
| 500    | 0.021 |
+--------+-------+
| 750    | 0.050 |
+--------+-------+

Also see relevant thread: How can I pretty-print ASCII tables with Python?