Generate proper LaTeX table using tabulate Python package

Question

I'm using the tabulate Python package to generate a properly LaTeX formatted table.

Here's a MWE:

from tabulate import tabulate

table = [[r"${:.1f}\pm{:.1f}$".format(2.3564, 0.5487)],
         [r"${:.1f}\pm{:.1f}$".format(45.1236, 8.00021)]
         ]

print tabulate(table, tablefmt="latex")

What I get with this example is:

\begin{tabular}{l}
\hline
 \$2.4\textbackslash{}pm0.5\$  \\
 \$45.1\textbackslash{}pm8.0\$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

when the proper formatting would be:

\begin{tabular}{l}
\hline
 $2.4\pm0.5$  \\
 $45.1\pm8.0$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

I.e.: the package is inserting backlashes before the $ symbols, and replacing the backlash in \pm with \textbackslash{}.

Is it possible to generate the correct formatted table?

gmuraleekrishna · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-21 08:26:43Z

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Change the tablefmt so that it is equal to latex_raw. From the documentation:

latex_raw behaves like latex but does not escape LaTeX commands and special characters.

edited Mar 21, 2018 at 8:26

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answered Mar 21, 2018 at 6:32

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Jules Gagnon-Marchand · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-24 17:29:29Z

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This

tabulate.LATEX_ESCAPE_RULES = {}

worked for me

>>> tabulate.LATEX_ESCAPE_RULES = {}
>>> print(tabulate.tabulate([[r'\alpha']], tablefmt='latex'))

\begin{tabular}{l}
\hline
 \alpha \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

worked for me.

edited Sep 24, 2021 at 17:29

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answered Aug 9, 2016 at 2:57

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2 Comments

Gabriel Over a year ago

Sorry for the late answer. This results in an error in the tabulate.tabulate() line: AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'tabulate'

castle-bravo Over a year ago

@Gabriel, the above answer likely uses import tabulate rather than from tabulate import tabulate.

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