[Rlib-users] Text-mode tables with borders in reStructuredText style?

[Jeff K. <jt...@ya...>]

I'm quite interested in rlib as a reporting library for python. I'm drawn
to monospaced report output, so rlib output looks ideal to me. I'd like to
request a feature for rlib's text mode output to be able to add borders to
rows and columns in the style of reStructuredText. Hopefully this could be
a style property for easy setting. This convention is expressive,
regular and doesn't necessarily have to use more character space than an
unbordered output. Thanks.

From:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/spec/rst/reStructuredText.html#tables

Two syntaxes for tables:

1. Grid tables; complete, but complex and verbose:

+------------------------+------------+----------+
| Header row, column 1   | Header 2   | Header 3 |
+========================+============+==========+
| body row 1, column 1   | column 2   | column 3 |
+------------------------+------------+----------+
| body row 2             | Cells may span        |
+------------------------+-----------------------+

2. Simple tables; easy and compact, but limited:

====================  ==========  ==========
Header row, column 1  Header 2    Header 3
====================  ==========  ==========
body row 1, column 1  column 2    column 3
body row 2            Cells may span columns
====================  ======================