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Hi there,
Thanks for the suggestion. Can I ask you to describe what your use case is
that has made you want this feature?
This is something I have thought about previously, more than once, but I
usually end up shying away from actually implementing it. There are a few
reasons for this. One, I am keen to try to keep PrettyTable from expanding
into a "kitchen sink" module, and to instead keep it focused on doing just what
it needs to do to get its job done. Two, there is quite some complexity
involved. For example, going from a string back to a PrettyTable object,
there's no way to know if a table entry of "4" was generated from a string "4"
or an integer int(4), so one can never guarantee that the reverse mapping is
exactly right. Also, there will be pathalogical cases that are hard to parse
(like when some table entry contains an instance of the horizontal or junction
character). Basically, writing something which works with 100% reliability
would probably be as big a project as PrettyTable in the first place. Finally,
I have never been able to think of a good reason why someone would truly need
this. If the tables you want to "reverse" were produced previously by your
application, then it would be a much better idea to, rather than saving the
ASCII tables, just save the data that was used to build them in the first place.
However, I am totally willing to listen to reason. If you have a compelling
use case where you really have to be able to do this and there's no other way
to solve your problem, then I will consider implementing it.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 19 Mar 2013 at 2:19
- Added labels: Type-Enhancement
- Removed labels: Type-Defect
from prettytable.
I am closing this issue due the high effort involved in impelementing it and
the lack of compelling arguments for why it might be needed, after a
sufficiently long wait. If anybody wants to put forth a good argument, feel
free to comment or open a new issue.
Original comment by [email protected]
on 5 Oct 2013 at 10:31
- Changed state: WontFix
from prettytable.
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