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add PrettyTable.to_csv() method
addisonklinke Jun 18, 2019
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ignore table title row (if present) when exporting to CSV
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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions prettytable/prettytable.py
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Expand Up @@ -1004,6 +1004,28 @@ def clear(self):
def copy(self):
return copy.deepcopy(self)

def to_csv(self, filename, headers=True):
"""Save PrettyTable results to a CSV file.

Adapted from @AdamSmith https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32128226

Arguments:

filename - filepath for the output CSV
headers - whether to include the header row in the CSV
"""
raw = self.get_string()
data = [tuple(filter(None, map(str.strip, splitline)))
for line in raw.splitlines()
for splitline in [line.split('|')] if len(splitline) > 1]
if self.title is not None:
data = data[1:]
if not headers:
data = data[1:]
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
for d in data:
f.write('{}\n'.format(','.join(d)))

##############################
# MISC PRIVATE METHODS #
##############################
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