cli-helpers

(released on 2026-04-13)

• Pin Pygments library to older version v2.19.2 to fix tests.
• Fix dates in changelog.

(released on 2026-03-21)

• Probe tabulate version for preserve_whitespace keyword support.

(released on 2026-03-05)

• Support and require version 0.10.x of tabulate.
• Pin tabulate version more tightly.

(released on 2026-02-18)

• Update license dates.
• Change master branch references to main.
• Provisional Python 3.6 compatibility (Union syntax).

(released on 2026-02-09)

• Allow TrueColor Pygments formatters, based on the COLORTERM env variable.

(released on 2026-01-26)

• Add optional convert_to_undecoded_string preprocessor.

(released on 2026-01-26)

• Revert: don't attempt to UTF-8-decode binary values.

(released on 2026-01-24)

• Don't attempt to UTF-8-decode binary values.

(released on 2026-01-24)

• Pass colalign argument through to tabulate.

(released on 2025-07-28)

• Add mysql and mysql_unicode output formats which right-align numbers.

(released on 2025-07-12)

• Register the JSON formats so they are actually usable.
• Make JSON formats able to encode Decimals and None/NULLs.

(released on 2025-07-10)

• Added noheader CSV and TSV output formats.
• Added jsonl and jsonl_escaped output formats.

(released on 2025-03-10)

• Added format_timestamps preprocessor for per-column date/time formatting.

• Don't escape newlines in ascii tables, and add ascii_escaped table format.
• Updated tabulate version to latest, to fix ImportError in pgcli.

(released on 2022-01-17)

• Fix pygments tokens passed as strings

(released on 2021-08-27)

• Remove dependency on terminaltables
• Add psql_unicode table format
• Add minimal table format
• Fix pip2 installing py3-only versions
• Format unprintable bytes (eg 0x00, 0x01) as hex

(released on 2020-07-29)

• Speed up output styling of tables.

(released on 2020-05-27)

• Fix newline escaping in plain-text formatters (ascii, double, github)
• Use built-in unittest.mock instead of mock.

(released on 2020-05-26)

• Remove Python 2.7 and 3.5.
• Style config for missing value.

(released on 2019-06-09)

• Pin Pygments to >= 2.4.0 for tests.
• Remove Python 3.4 from tests and Trove classifier.
• Add an option to skip truncating multi-line strings.
• When truncating long strings, add ellipsis.

(released on 2019-04-05)

• Fix issue with writing non-ASCII characters to config files.
• Run tests on Python 3.7.
• Use twine check during packaging tests.
• Rename old tsv format to csv-tab (because it add quotes), introduce new tsv output adapter.
• Truncate long fields for tabular display.
• Return the supported table formats as unicode.
• Override tab with 4 spaces for terminal tables.

(released on 2018-10-18)

• Adds config file reading/writing.
• Style formatted tables with Pygments (optional).

(released on 2018-04-07)

• Copy unit test from pgcli
• Use safe float for unit test
• Move strip_ansi from tests.utils to cli_helpers.utils

(released on 2017-11-27)

• Output all unicode for terminaltables, add unit test.

(released on 2017-10-11)

• Output as generator
• Use backports.csv only for py2
• Require tabulate as a dependency instead of using vendored module.
• Drop support for Python 3.3.

(released on 2017-08-01)

• Fix unicode error on Python 2 with newlines in output row.
• Fixes to accept iterator.

(released on 2017-07-16)

• Fix IndexError from being raised with uneven rows.

(released on 2017-07-11)

• Run tests on macOS via Travis.
• Fix unicode issues on Python 2 (csv and styling output).

(released on 2017-06-23)

• Make vertical table separator more customizable.
• Add format numbers preprocessor.
• Add test coverage reports.
• Add ability to pass additional preprocessors when formatting output.
• Don't install tests.tabular_output.
• Add .gitignore
• Coverage for tox tests.
• Style formatted output with Pygments (optional).
• Fix issue where tabulate can't handle ANSI escape codes in default values.
• Run tests on Windows via Appveyor.

(released on 2017-05-01)

• Pretty print tabular data using a variety of formatting libraries.