New feature: provide a means of obtaining table geometry.

[minitchoup]

• g.w: table width with frame elements,
• g.h: table height with frame elements,
• g.c_w: width of each column without frame elements,
• g.r_h: height of each row without frame elements,
• g.f_w: width of horizontal frame elements,
• g.f_h: the height of vertical frame elements.

Example:

>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="simple"))
item      qty
------  ----- )1
spam       42
eggs      451
bacon       0
      ╰╯
       2

>>> g = geometry(table, headers, tablefmt="simple"))
>>> g.w
13
>>> g.h
5
>>> g.c_w
(6, 5)
>>> g.r_h
(1, 1, 1, 1)
>>> g.f_w
(0, 2, 0)
>>> g.f_h
(0, 1, 0, 0, 0)

>>> print(tabulate(table, headers, tablefmt="grid"))
+--------+-------+ )1
| item   |   qty |
+========+=======+ )1
| spam   |    42 |
+--------+-------+ )1
| eggs   |   451 |
+--------+-------+ )1
| bacon  |     0 |
+--------+-------+ )1
╰╯      ╰─╯     ╰╯
2        3       2

>>> g = geometry(table, headers, tablefmt="grid"))
>>> g.w
18
>>> g.h
9
>>> g.c_w
(6, 5)
>>> g.r_h
(1, 1, 1, 1)
>>> g.f_w
(2, 3, 2)
>>> g.f_h
(1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

Thanks to the information provided, I'm able to configure the table generation correctly, for example, so that it doesn't exceed a maximum width...

Thank you for your work.

[astanin]

I'm not sure if that is what you're looking for, but the information about table format is already structured like this:

TableFormat(
        lineabove=Line("+", "-", "+", "+"),
        linebelowheader=Line("+", "=", "+", "+"),
        linebetweenrows=Line("+", "-", "+", "+"),
        linebelow=Line("+", "-", "+", "+"),
        headerrow=DataRow("|", "|", "|"),
        datarow=DataRow("|", "|", "|"),
        padding=1,
        with_header_hide=None,
    )

From the length of these strings and padding value you can calculate all your geometric parameters. Other formats:

https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/blob/master/tabulate/init.py#L338

See also the comment https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/blob/master/tabulate/init.py#L57