reportlab table

ReportLab is a powerful Python library for creating PDF documents with various elements such as text, images, and tables. In this case, we will focus on creating tables using ReportLab.

To create a table in ReportLab, we first need to import the necessary packages:

from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle

Next, we can define the data to be included in the table. This can be done using a nested list, where each sublist represents a row in the table:

data = [
    ["Name", "Age", "Gender"],
    ["John", 25, "Male"],
    ["Jane", 30, "Female"],
    ["Bob", 40, "Male"],
    ["Mary", 35, "Female"]
]

We can then create a table object using this data:

table = Table(data)

To add styling to the table, we can define a TableStyle object and apply it to the table:

style = TableStyle([
    ('BACKGROUND', (0,0), (-1,0), colors.grey),
    ('TEXTCOLOR', (0,0), (-1,0), colors.whitesmoke),
    ('ALIGN', (0,0), (-1,-1), 'CENTER'),
    ('FONTNAME', (0,0), (-1,0), 'Helvetica-Bold'),
    ('FONTSIZE', (0,0), (-1,0), 14),
    ('BOTTOMPADDING', (0,0), (-1,0), 12),
    ('BACKGROUND', (0,1), (-1,-1), colors.beige),
    ('TEXTCOLOR', (0,1), (-1,-1), colors.black),
    ('ALIGN', (-1,0), (-1,-1), 'CENTER'),
    ('FONTNAME', (0,1), (-1,-1), 'Helvetica'),
    ('FONTSIZE', (0,1), (-1,-1), 12),
    ('BOTTOMPADDING', (0,1), (-1,-1), 6),
    ('VALIGN', (0,0), (-1,-1), 'MIDDLE'),
])
table.setStyle(style)

Finally, we can include the table in our PDF document:

pdf_doc = SimpleDocTemplate("my_table.pdf", pagesize=letter)
pdf_doc.build([table])

This will create a PDF document with a table that has styling applied to it. You can adjust the styling to fit your needs.