import string
def as_behave_table(data):
""" nosetests --with-doctest --with-coverage report_table.py
>>> from report_table import as_behave_table
>>> data = [('what', 'how', 'who'),
... ('lorem', 'that is a long value', 3.1415),
... ('ipsum', 89798, 0.2)]
>>> print as_behave_table(data)
| what | how | who |
| lorem | that is a long value | 3.1415 |
| ipsum | 89798 | 0.2 |
"""
table = []
# max size of each column
sizes = map(max, zip(*[[len(str(elt)) for elt in member]
for member in data]))
num_elts = len(sizes)
start_of_line = '| '
vertical_separator = ' | '
end_of_line = ' |'
meta_template = vertical_separator.join(['{{{{{0}:{{{0}}}}}}}'.format(i)
for i in range(num_elts)])
template = '{0}{1}{2}'.format(start_of_line,
meta_template.format(*sizes),
end_of_line)
for d in data:
table.append(template.format(*d))
return '\n'.join(table)
