Bringing Tables to Life

00:00 Bringing tables to life. If you are working with a lot of data, then often a table is the most compact way to present it, but displaying data tables can be a little dry.

00:12 In this section, you’ll see how you can use Rich’s table building tools along with formatting and colorization to build a table that really grabs the user’s attention.

00:23 Building a static table. Rich has a Table class that lets you build tabular data. Displays on screen is an example that shows how you can set formats and colors on a per column basis.

00:37 First, the relevant imports are performed: Console and Table. Next, a Console is created, followed by a Table.

00:54 The table columns are then added, setting the header text, the style, and justification.

01:35 A dictionary is then created containing the information to be displayed in the table for each element.

02:32 The rows are then added to the table by iterating over the dictionary members, adding text for each column in the order they were defined earlier on.

03:05 Finally, the table is printed to the console. Table is a convenient way of presenting this kind of data. As you can see on screen, the Table API gives you an intuitive way of building a nice looking tabular display with Rich, taking care of the implementation details.

03:29 In the next section of the course, you’ll see how Rich can give you more help with tables creating a scrolling table display.