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floatfmt doesn't work when tablefmt="pretty" #71
Description
Reproduced with tabulate==0.8.7
import tabulate
table = tabulate.tabulate(
[
[1.10000001],
],
tablefmt="pretty",
floatfmt=".3f",
)
print(table)yields
+------------+
| 1.10000001 |
+------------+
instead of
+-------+
| 1.100 |
+-------+
Reacted by sean rice
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jhutar commentedon Nov 5, 2020
I can see this too - also I have
tabulate==0.8.7onPython 3.9.0.flcong commentedon Jan 27, 2021
I find the same issue with
tabulate==0.8.7onPython 3.8.5astanin commentedon Feb 17, 2021
PrettyTable formatter was added in ba3c203, and it doesn't parse/reformat numbers.
This is by design, but this particular design choice leaves much to be desired.
I assume that at this point some users may depend on the format behaving like this.
But the formatter may see some not-backwards-compatible improvement in the next major version.
So the next version of the "pretty" format should change existing output tests as little as possible by default,
but it should also respect floatfmt, if given.