A python-tabulate wrapper for producing tables from generators.
lazy_table is useful when (i) each row of your table is generated by a possibly expensive computation and (ii) you want to print rows to the screen as soon as they are available.
For example, the rows in the table below correspond to numerically solving an ordinary differential equation with progressively more steps. See examples/ode.py for the code to generate this table.
Install lazy_table via pip:
$ pip install lazy_tableIn your Python code, add
import lazy_table as ltNow, generating your own lazy table is as simple as calling lt.stream on a generator that yields one or more lists, where each list is a row of your table (see the example below).
As a toy example, consider printing the first 10 Fibonacci numbers in a table.
Since this is a relatively cheap operation, we will pretend it is expensive by adding an artificial sleep(1) call beteween Fibonacci numbers.
import time
import lazy_table as lt
def fib_table(n):
x0, x1 = 0, 1
yield [0, x0]
yield [1, x1]
for i in range(2, n + 1):
time.sleep(1) # Simulate work
x0, x1 = x1, x0 + x1
yield [i, x1]
lt.stream(fib_table(10), headers=['N', 'F_N'])Your final table should look like this:
N F_N
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0 0
1 1
2 1
3 2
4 3
5 5
6 8
7 13
8 21
9 34
10 55