format multiple list of lists in a table vertically-CodePudding

I am new to formatting and trying to format multiple lists of list to be tidy. My code I have tried, which I have used for single list of lists is:

from tabulate import tabulate

orig = [['all', 4], ['away', 1], ['ball', 0], ['before', 1]]
first = [['every', 5], ['home', 1], ['game', 2], ['time', 2]]
second = [['one', 7], ['family', 1], ['sport', 3], ['now', 3]]
third = [['day', 10], ['friends', 1], ['game', 8], ['never', 3]]

print(tabulate([orig, first, second, third],  headers=['Orig', 'First', 'Second', 'Third']))

The problem I'm having is the rows and columns are reversed.

I want for example, Orig to be ['all', 4],['away', 1],['ball', 0],['before', 1]

Any help would be appreciated inc. other ideas.

Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

Cant you just use dictionaries?

orig = {"all": 4, "away": 1, "ball": 0, "before": 1}

# Keep in mind that to get the values you use the key. so:
# orig["all"] would give you 4
# iterating is also different
for key in orig:
    print(key, orig[key])
# this will give you the key and the value.

I hope this helps you, not sure if this will work in your specific situation, though, but you can try.

CodePudding user response：

You have to transpose the table. One way to do that is using zip:

print(
    tabulate(
        zip(orig, first, second, third),
        headers=['Orig', 'First', 'Second', 'Third']
    )
)

Result:

Orig           First         Second         Third
-------------  ------------  -------------  --------------
['all', 4]     ['every', 5]  ['one', 7]     ['day', 10]
['away', 1]    ['home', 1]   ['family', 1]  ['friends', 1]
['ball', 0]    ['game', 2]   ['sport', 3]   ['game', 8]
['before', 1]  ['time', 2]   ['now', 3]     ['never', 3]