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tabulate-cell-merger 0.0.2
Merge cells while tabulating tables.
Requires Python: >=3.6

# Tabulate Cell Merger

This is a package to merge cells when tabulating table. A table is a list of lists which can be represented into rows and columns.
It is inspired in the already existing tabulate package.

### How to import the module
Module's name for importing:
```
import tabulate_cell_merger.tabulate_cell_merger
```

### How to use
The module contains **one** function for you to use: `tabulate()`. This function accepts three arguments as following:
```
tabulate(table, colspan, rowspan)
```
`colspan` and `rowspan` are optional arguments. The `table` argument is required.

To merge cells *horizontally*, use the colspan argument.<br>
To merge cells *vertically*, use the rowspan argument.<br>
These arguments are **dictionaries**.<br>
They allow you to stretch cells over others.<br>
Syntax:
```
colspan = {(y, x): value}
rowspan = {(y, x): value}
```
For each cell you want to stretch, you have to associate its coordinates, having then a tuple as key, to a stretching value: 1 generates no stretching, 2 stretches over one other cell (to the right or to downwards), etc.<br>
Here, `y` is the cell row, `x` the cell column, and `value` the stretching value.

#### An example
Input:
```
table = [['a1', 'b1'], ['a2', 'b2']]
colspan = {(0, 0): 2}
rowspan = {(0, 1): 2}
```
Output:
```
+----+----+
| a1      |
+----+    +
| a2 |    |
+----+----+
```