datascience.tables.Table.from_records

classmethod Table.from_records(records)

Create a table from a sequence of records (dicts with fixed keys).

Args:

records: A list of dictionaries with same keys.

Returns:

If the list is empty, it will return an empty table. Otherwise, it will return a table with the dictionary’s keys as the column name, and the corresponding data. If the dictionaries do not have identical keys, the keys of the first dictionary in the list is used.

Example:

>>> t = Table().from_records([
...     {'column1':'data1','column2':1}, 
...     {'column1':'data2','column2':2}, 
...     {'column1':'data3','column2':3}
... ])
>>> t
column1 | column2
data1   | 1
data2   | 2
data3   | 3