tabular visualization

[anthos5]

Hello everyone,
I hope you're all doing well.

I have a dataframe containing the name of the months (Jan to Dec):

import pandas as pd

l = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']

df = pd.DataFrame(l, columns=["Month Name"])

I want to show the dataframe records in a tabular visual as following:



any idea on how to do this i searched for matplotlib and plottable libraries none of them could do the same.
thank you

[Larz60+]

You can use tkinter, documentation here
tutorial here

[anthos5]

Thank you for the documentation and tutorial.

I was hoping to find a way that is related to a data visualization library more than a GUI library.

Thanks again

[Pedroski55]

You could use reportlab and make a pdf!

Get the column data from your df as a list.

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
from reportlab.lib.colors import pink, green, brown, white, black
from reportlab.pdfbase.pdfmetrics import stringWidth

mypdf = 'reportlab/pdfs/text_in_rectangles.pdf'

def myApp():
    c = canvas.Canvas(mypdf, pagesize=A4)
    c.setTitle("Months of the Year")
    # for info
    width, height = A4 # Page width is 595.2755905511812, page height is 841.8897637795277
    # middle = 297 # roughly the middle of the page
    print(f'Page width is {width}, page height is {height}')

    c.setFont("Helvetica-Bold", 14)
    # c.setFillColor(pink)
    c.setStrokeColor(black)
    #c.setStrokeColorRGB(0,0,0,1) # black
    #c.setFillColorRGB(1,1,1,1) # white
    c.drawString(250, 800, "Month Name")

    # draw a rectangle around the text
    c.setLineWidth(4)
    c.rect(220, 790, 140, 30, stroke=1, fill=0)

    months = ['January', 'February', 'March',
                  'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
                  'August', 'September',
                  'October', 'November', 'December']
    start = 760
    dy = 40
    c.setLineWidth(1)
    c.setFont("Helvetica", 14)
    for m in months:
        text_width = stringWidth(m, "Helvetica", 14)
        textpos = 287 - 0.5 * text_width
        c.drawString(textpos, start, m)
        c.rect(240, start-10, 100, 30, stroke=1, fill=0)
        start = start - dy

    c.setLineWidth(4)
    c.rect(220, 290, 140, 530, stroke=1, fill=0)
    c.showPage()
    c.save()

Just run myApp() in your IDE. The result looks a lot like what you want!

[anthos5]

@Pedroski55 Thank you for this solution