This is a simple python program to print pretty tables using the following 3 characters: |-+. I initially kept trying to use libraries I found online, but they all seemed over-complicated, and none of them supported unicode characters, which were quite important in the data I was trying to print. (I was scraping Spanish conjugation tables from spanishdict.com, if you must know)

I find example code the easiest way to learn, so here's a simple program:

import makeTable
mytable = [[u'apple',u'яблоко'],[u'löts øf spéçîàl chārãċţêrś',u'ouí'],[u'¡palabras!',u'¿preguntas?']]
print(makeTable.drawTable(mytable).encode('utf-8'))

Output:

+--------------------------+-----------+
|          apple           |  яблоко   |
+--------------------------+-----------+
|löts øf spéçîàl chārãċţêrś|    ouí    |
+--------------------------+-----------+
|        ¡palabras!        |¿preguntas?|
+--------------------------+-----------+

And that's pretty much it. drawTable() is the only function defined by makeTable. It accepts a an array of arrays as rows of columns, and prints them accordingly.

Hey! I finally ported this to python3. Welcome to the future. ;)