Class Table - Construct a Table with Python lists.

SYNOPSIS

import HTMLgen

class Table
  def __init__(self, tabletitle='', **kw)
  def __repr__(self)

DESCRIPTION

Instantiate with a string argument for the table's name (caption). Set object.heading to a list of strings representing the column headings. Set object.body to a list of lists representing rows. WARNING: the body attribute will be edited to conform to html. If you don't want your data changed make a copy of this list and use that with the table object.

def init(self, tabletitle='', **kw)

Arg1 is a string title for the table caption, optional keyword arguments follow.

def repr(self)

Generates the html for the entire table.

Keyword Parameters

Defaults in (parenthesis). Keyword parameters may be set as attributes of the instantiated table object as well.

caption_align: 'top'|'bottom' specifies the location of the table title ('top')
border: the width in pixels of the bevel effect around the table (2)
cell_padding: the distance between cell text and the cell boundary (4)
cell_spacing: the width of the cell borders themselves (1)
width: the width of the entire table wrt the current window width ('100%')
colspan: a list specifying the number of columns spanned by that heading index. e.g. t.colspan = [2,2] will place 2 headings spanning 2 columns each (assuming the body has 4 columns).
heading: list of strings, the length of which determine the number of columns. ( ['&nbsp']*3 )
heading_align: 'center'|'left'|'right' horizontally align text in the header row ('center')
heading_valign: 'middle' |'top'|'bottom' vertically align text in the header row ('middle')
body: a list of lists in row major order containing strings or objects to populate the body of the table. ( [['&nbsp']*3] )
column1_align: 'left'|'right'|'center' text alignment of the first column
cell_align: 'left'|'right'|'center' text alignment for all other cells
cell_line_breaks: 1|0 flag to determine if newline char in body text will be converted to <br> symbols; 1 they will, 0 they won't. (1)