workaround unwanted tabulate formatting of year headers as floats

Author: softwareengineerprogrammer

src/geophires_x/EconomicsSam.py

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 import PySAM.Utilityrate5 as UtilityRate
 from tabulate import tabulate
 
-import geophires_x.Model as Model
 from geophires_x import Model as Model
 from geophires_x.EconomicsSamCashFlow import _calculate_sam_economics_cash_flow
 from geophires_x.Parameter import Parameter
@@ -96,7 +95,14 @@ def get_sam_cash_flow_profile_tabulated_output(model: Model, **tabulate_kw_args)
     Note model must have already calculated economics for this to work (used in Outputs)
     """
 
-    _tabulate_kw_args = {'tablefmt': 'tsv', 'floatfmt': '.2f', 'intfmt': ',', **tabulate_kw_args}
+    # fmt:off
+    _tabulate_kw_args = {
+        'tablefmt': 'tsv',
+        'floatfmt': '.2f',
+        'intfmt': ',',
+        **tabulate_kw_args
+    }
+    # fmt:on
 
     return tabulate(model.economics.sam_economics.value[_SAM_CASH_FLOW_PROFILE_KEY], **_tabulate_kw_args)
 

src/geophires_x/EconomicsSamCashFlow.py

@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ def _calculate_sam_economics_cash_flow(model: Model, single_owner: Singleowner)
 
     profile = []
     total_duration = model.surfaceplant.plant_lifetime.value + model.surfaceplant.construction_years.value
-    years = list(range(0, total_duration))
+
+    # Prefix with 'Year ' partially as workaround for tabulate applying float formatting to ints, possibly related
+    # to https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/issues/18
+    years = [f'Year {y}' for y in list(range(0, total_duration))]
+
     row_1 = [None] + years
     profile.append(row_1)