PDF table output styles

[GabeNazario]

Description

Hello! I'm new to quarto and I'm trying to create a PDF report using Jupyter Lab as I progress with my EDA.
I want to format my output tables, but since I'm working on Jupyter the examples online don't help much. And since I'm new I might be missing the message.

In my YAML header I have:

---
title: "**Title Here**"
subtitle: "Subtitle here"
author: "**_It'sa Me!_**"
toc: true
number-sessions: true
highlight-style: pygments
urlcolor: blue
latex-engine: xelatex
format:
    pdf:
        documentclass: report
        echo: false
        geometry:
            - top=30mm
            - left=20mm
            - right=20mm
        color-links: true
        
jupyter: python3
---

Than for my output I have a normal looking table like this: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/images/crossref-table-knitr.png
However, I want to alternate the rows color, adding a grey background to facilitate reading. Like this one: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWWdWvwX0AEEGAC?format=jpg&name=900x900

I understand that the second image uses R, and I'm using Python o Jupyter, but I just wanted to exemplify the type of table I want. I could not figure out a way to work with knitr or kable using only python. not even sure if that is possible.

This formatting would help me a bunch, because I also have a Multi Indexed table I want to tabulate nicely before printing, but I'm struggling to layer the rows inside the index.

I appreciate any help and apologize if there is a major oversight on my part.

Cheers,
Gabe

[mcanouil]

Your question is basically not related to Quarto but to "how to generate and format table as LaTeX in Python?".
You should look for Python modules that can output tables with styling.

Also take a look at https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html#computations.