Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: dashtable2
Version: 1.4.5
Summary: A library for converting a HTML tables into ASCII tables, rowspan and colspan allowed!
Home-page: https://github.com/PasaOpasen/dashtable2
Author: doakey3 & gustavklopp & pasaopasen
Author-email: qtckpuhdsa@gmail.com
License: MIT
License-File: LICENSE.txt

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DashTable
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dashtable has functions for converting data to reStructuredText
tables and Markdown tables, as well as methods for generating data from
these text-tables. It can quickly convert html tables to rst, but you
may have better results with pandoc.

Methods
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:html2rst:       Convert html table to `RST grid table`_
:html2md:        Convert html table to Markdown table
:data2md:        Convert a list of lists of strings to Markdown Table
:data2rst:       Convert a list of lists of strings to `RST grid Table`_
:data2simplerst: Convert a list of lists of strings to a `simple RST
                 Table`_
:grid2data:      Convert an `RST grid table`_ to data
:simple2data:    Convert a `simple RST table`_ to data

.. _RST grid table: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables
.. _simple RST Table: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#tables

Installation
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dashtable can be installed using pip::

    sudo pip install dashtable

Depending on how you'd like to use dashtable, you may need to install
some dependencies.

Dependencies
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Several of the functions in dashtable have no outside requirements.
However, for the following functions you will need to install certain
dependencies:

:html2rst: BeautifulSoup_,
:html2md: BeautifulSoup_
:html2data: BeautifulSoup_,
:grid2data: docutils_
:simple2data: docutils_

.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
.. _pandoc: https://pandoc.org/
.. _BeautifulSoup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Usage
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Complete documentation on usage can be found on `Read the Docs`_.

.. _Read the Docs: http://dashtable.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Code.html
