pluto.tools.dicts2lines¶

pluto.tools.dicts2lines(dict_list, comment_list=None)[source]¶

Helper function to convert a list of dicts into a list of lines to use with write_table create a list of line parts to pass for write_table

Parameters

dict_list (list) – a list of dictionaries with data to be written
comment_list (list) – a list of comment lines to prepend to the file data

Note

Returns list of lines in the format:

[ ['# comment1'], ['col1', 'col2'], ['val1', 'val2'], ... ]

Note

Dict values must be type str

Examples

Example usage:

>>> row1 = { 'a':'1', 'b':'2' }
>>> row2 = { 'a':'6', 'b':7 }
>>> row2 = { 'a':'6', 'b':'7' }
>>> lines = dicts2lines(dict_list = [row1, row2], comment_list = comments)
>>> lines
['# foo', ['a', 'b'], ['1', '2'], ['6', '7']]
>>> output_path = write_table(tmpdir = '.', filename = 'output.txt', lines = lines)