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Ability to render tables to console
Currently, Great Tables supports rendering to HTML. However, python supports rich table displays in console, using frameworks like rich:
Unfortunately, rich does not allow col and rowspan, but we may be able to find a tool that does (or a way to make it work). (see also the less active library dashtable).
A user on the polars discord mentioned this kind of printout in the console would be useful, and I totally agree! This might be something we pursue once we have a good internal representation of a "built" table, that can easily be passed to different renderers.
Hi, I'm confused on this -- the front page says "Finally, the table is rendered by printing it at the console, including it in an notebook environment, or rendering it inside a Quarto document." yet this issue seems to indicate I can't just print() and get a rendered table on the console?
Shoot -- you're right, the language on printing is misleading. People can get a table displayed from the console by using the GT.show() method to open it in a browser. But we should change "printing at the console".
I can work on a page in our get started guide that details the various ways to display a GT object (this has come up a few times)
The front page still reads the same, "Finally, the table is rendered by printing it at the console, including it in an notebook environment, or rendering it inside a Quarto document."
The ability to to print to console would be very useful. But till then, the front page is misleading and should be fixed. I have submitted a pull request #522 to fix the immediate issue.
