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narimiran
I know this is very basic and not comparable with most of the stuff posted here, but anyway...

If you have some feature suggestion, bug report, or some general (coding) advice, please let me know. Thank you in advance!

bflesch
Thank you, this looks very useful to me. Saying that as someone who has spent several hours converting csv data to latex tables in the past ;)
narimiran
> Thank you, this looks very useful to me.

I'm glad to hear that! :)

> someone who has spent several hours converting csv data to latex tables in the past

Hopefully, tably will save you some hours in the future. If you find anything that could be improved, contact me and I'll see what I can do about it.

cup-of-tea
Why? Is CSV easier to write than LaTeX? I prefer something like org-mode tables which are actually easy to write.
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narimiran
> Why? Is CSV easier to write than LaTeX?

1. When it comes to tables, yes - CSV is easier to write than LaTeX. Everything is easier than LaTeX tables :)

2. More serious reason - I have some lab equipment which outputs its results as CSV files, so this tool is used to convert those 'automatically' created .csv files.

cup-of-tea
But isn't it just a character substitution? TeX uses & and \\ for column and row separators, CSV uses , and newline. There's no way I'm writing either of them by hand, so why do I need to convert from CSV?
lorey
If you have pandas installed, you can also use something like:

  pd.DataFrame.from_csv(path_csv).to_latex(path_latex)
More information at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas...
narimiran
> If you have pandas installed, ...

I'll just copy my Reddit comment when somebody notified me about `to_latex()`:

> To be honest, I didn't know this exists (and I use pandas for lots of things). If I did, I probably wouldn't even start making tably.

> Thanks for letting me know about it, I might use it as an inspiration to maybe add some more functionality in the future....

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tmalsburg2
In R:

  read_csv("file.csv") %>% xtable
p.s: I don't want to suggest the the Python program is inferior. This is just an illustration showing how easy it is to manipulate table data in R. R is basically a language designed for that purpose.
_Wintermute
about as easy in python:

   pd.read_csv("file.csv").to_latex()
horatatata
either way! im going to use Latex tables more because they are so easy and so damn good lookin'