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Tutorial
========

**This tutorial is distributed with PrettyTable and is meant to serve as
a "quick start" guide for the lazy or impatient. It is not an exhaustive
description of the whole API, and it is not guaranteed to be 100% up to
date. For more complete and update documentation, check the PrettyTable
wiki at http://code.google.com/p/prettytable/w/list**
**This tutorial is distributed with PrettyTable and is meant to
serve as a "quick start" guide. It is not an exhaustive description
API, and it is not guaranteed to be 100% up to of the whole
date. For more complete and update documentation, check the
PrettyTable wiki at http://code.google.com/p/prettytable/w/list**

Getting your data into (and out of) the table
=============================================
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To print a table in ASCII form, you can just do this:

::

print x

in Python 2.x or:

::

print(x)
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::

print x.get_string(fields=["City name", "Population"])
print(x.get_string(fields=["City name", "Population"]))

gives:

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::

print x.get_string(start=1,end=4)
print(x.get_string(start=1,end=4))

prints:

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::

x.align = "r"
print x
print(x)

gives:

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x.align["Area"] = "c"
x.align["Population"] = "r"
x.align["Annual Rainfall"] = "c"
print x
print(x)

gives:

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::

print x.get_string(sortby="Population")
print(x.get_string(sortby="Population"))

to get

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::

x.sortby = "Population"
print x
print x
print x
print(x)
print(x)
print(x)

All three tables printed by this code will be sorted by population (you
could do ``x.reversesort = True`` as well, if you wanted). The behaviour
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from prettytable import MSWORD_FRIENDLY
x.set_style(MSWORD_FRIENDLY)
print x
print(x)

In addition to ``MSWORD_FRIENDLY`` there are currently two other
in-built styles you can use for your tables:
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::

x.border = False
print x
print x
print x
print(x)
print(x)
print(x)

Neither of the 3 tables printed by this will have borders, even if you
do things like add extra rows inbetween them. The lack of borders will
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::

print x
print x.get_string(border=False)
print x
print(x)
print(x.get_string(border=False))
print(x)

Displaying your table in HTML form
==================================
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