Generating Readme Tables From Pandas
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Date: May 16, 2018

## Generating Readme Tables From Pandas

I commonly have a need to paste the first few lines of a dataset into a markdown file. I use two handy packages to do this, ```tabulate``` and ```pyperclip```. Lets say I have a Pandas DataFrame in memory as ```df``` already. All I would need to do to convert the first 5 rows to markdown and copy it to the clipboard is the following.

```Python
from tabulate import tabulate
import pyperclip
md = tabulate.tabulate(df.head(), df.columns, tablefmt='pipe')
pyperclip.copy(md)
```

This is a super handy snippet that I use a lot. Folks really appreciate it when they can see a sample of the data without opening the entire file.