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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Can I pass a list to headers?","articleBody":"Summary: I want to pass a list of dicts as the data, and a list of keys for headers. I don't want to full list of keys in the data as headers, I want a shorter list, in a different order.\r\n\r\nIn the documentation:\r\n\u003e The following tabular data types are supported:\r\n\u003e   ...\r\n\u003e   dict of iterables (keys as columns)\r\n\u003e   ...\r\n\r\nThe headers parameter requires either a special keyword (e.g., \"keys\"), or a dict of column keys. I already have a list of column keys. (In a bizarre complication, the code converts this dict of column keys to a list? But doesn't support a list of column keys directly? WTF?) [I agree, it's _nice_ that the header dict is converted to a list for me.)\r\n\r\nMy header list is not always the full list of column keys, as the full data is collected first, then a decision is made on which columns to output.\r\n\r\nA workaround is to convert my list of column keys to a dict, so the code can convert it back? ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/qm64","@type":"Person","name":"qm64"},"datePublished":"2024-01-22T16:08:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/2/python-tabulate/issues/2"}