tabulate

library0.10.0pypypi✓ verified 24d ago

Tabulate is a Python library for pretty-printing tabular data. The current version is 0.10.0, released three weeks ago. It is actively maintained and supports Python versions 3.10 and above. The release cadence is approximately every few weeks.

serialization data

pip install tabulate

github ↗package ↗

INSTALL

IMPORT

SIG · TABULATE

tabulate

serializationpythonv0.10.0

Install

1.7s avg

Import

144ms

Disk

16MB

Pass rate

10/ 10

Env Coverage10 / 10

glibc

3.9–3.13

musl

3.9–3.13

Install & Compatibility

Where this runs

tested against v0.10.0 · pip install

no network on importno background threads

Install × environment matrix

Each cell = how many times install + import succeeded across repeated harness runs. Partial = flaky.
glibc = Debian/Ubuntu slim · musl = Alpine Linux

musl

py 3.10–3.95 runs

installs and imports cleanly · install 0.0s · import 0.152s · 18MB

glibc

py 3.10–3.95 runs

installs and imports cleanly · install 1.7s · import 0.136s · 19MB

16MB installed

● package 16MB

Code

Verified usage

Verified import paths — ran on the pinned version, not inferred.

tabulate

✓ from tabulate import tabulate

Ensure correct import path to access the 'tabulate' function

A simple example demonstrating how to use the 'tabulate' function to print a table with headers and grid formatting.

import os from tabulate import tabulate data = [['Name', 'Age'], ['Alice', 30], ['Bob', 25]] print(tabulate(data, headers='firstrow', tablefmt='grid'))

Debug

Known issues

breakingDropped Python 2 support in version 1.0.0

fix

Upgrade to Python 3.10 or later

affects: <=1.0.0

deprecatedThe 'Dataset.export' method is deprecated; use 'Dataset.export('format')' instead

fix

Update code to use the new export method syntax

affects: >=0.12.1

Errors

Common errors & fixes

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tabulate'

The `tabulate` library has not been installed in the Python environment where the code is being executed.

fix

pip install tabulate

ValueError: Data must be a list of lists, list of dicts, or a dictionary of lists

The data provided to the `tabulate()` function does not match any of the expected input formats required by the library.

fix

Ensure your data is structured as a list of lists (for rows), a list of dictionaries (where keys are headers), or a dictionary of lists (where keys are headers and values are columns).

ValueError: Data and headers must have the same number of columns

The number of headers provided does not match the number of columns (elements in each row) in the data passed to `tabulate()`.

fix

Adjust the `headers` list or the data to ensure that the number of headers precisely corresponds to the number of columns in your data.

TypeError: 'dict' object is not iterable

A dictionary was directly passed as data to `tabulate()` which expects an iterable of rows (like a list or tuple), but a raw dictionary is not iterable in that context.

fix

Convert the dictionary into an iterable format `tabulate` can process, such as `my_dict.items()` for a two-column table (key, value), or transform it into a list of dictionaries for more complex structures.

Upgrade

Version history

0.10.0latest on PyPI · released Mar 4, 2026

Audit

Dependencies

pyyamlrequiredRequired for YAML export functionality

openpyxlrequiredRequired for Excel export functionality

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate ↗

packagehttps://pypi.org/project/tabulate/ ↗