The reason is Because you are dict are unordered. You can use OrderedDict from the collections module.

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> from tabulate import tabulate
>>> parameter_list = []
>>> parameter_list.append(OrderedDict([('C', False), ('A', 'Hello'), ('B', 'you')]))
>>> parameter_list.append(OrderedDict([('C', False), ('A', 'Salue'), ('B', 'Tu')]))
>>> print tabulate(parameter_list, headers='keys')
  C  A      B
---  -----  ---
  0  Hello  you
  0  Salue  Tu
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Tabulate also lets you transpose your table, :Table xp, to get this... event A B C D E eruption 3.600 1.800 3.333 2.283 4.533 waiting 79 54 74 62 85 · You can also sort by any column in the table, rearrange the columns, delete columns, or add new columns computed from the others.
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authoring tabular data for lightweight plain-text markup: multiple output formats suitable for further editing or transformation · readable presentation of mixed textual and numeric data: smart column alignment, configurable number formatting, alignment by a decimal point · To install the Python library and the command line utility, run:
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How do you sort a table by one column?? (of floats)
Been struggling all day to figure this out, every guide online only shows how to use the sorted() function to change a table by a column alphabetically, there is no help anywhere if you are trying to sort by floats. **wall** #!/usr/bin/python imp...
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How to sort a table by columns in Python - SaltyCrane Blog
December 5, 2007 - import operator def sort_table(table, cols): """ sort a table by multiple columns table: a list of lists (or tuple of tuples) where each inner list represents a row cols: a list (or tuple) specifying the column numbers to sort by e.g. (1,0) would sort by column 1, then by column 0 """ for col in reversed(cols): table = sorted(table, key=operator.itemgetter(col)) return table if __name__ == '__main__': mytable = ( ('Joe', 'Clark', '1989'), ('Charlie', 'Babbitt', '1988'), ('Frank', 'Abagnale', '2002'), ('Bill', 'Clark', '2009'), ('Alan', 'Clark', '1804'), ) for row in sort_table(mytable, (1,0)): print row Results: ('Frank', 'Abagnale', '2002') ('Charlie', 'Babbitt', '1988') ('Alan', 'Clark', '1804') ('Bill', 'Clark', '2009') ('Joe', 'Clark', '1989') An example using Python's groupby and defaultdict to do the same task — posted 2014-10-09
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func_list = list(funcs.keys()) table = pd.DataFrame(final) table = table.reindex(table.mean(1).sort_values().index) order = np.log(table).mean().sort_values().index table = table.T table = table.reindex(order, axis=0) table = table.reindex(func_list, axis=1) table = 1000000 * table / (SIZE * NUMBER) table.index.name = "Bit Gen" print(table.to_csv(float_format="%0.1f")) try: from tabulate import tabulate perf = table.applymap(lambda v: "{0:0.1f}".format(v)) print(tabulate(perf, headers="keys", tablefmt="rst")) except ImportError: pass table = table.T rel = table.loc[:, ["NumPy"]].values @ np.ones((1, table.shape[1])) / table rel.pop("NumPy") rel = rel.T rel["Overall"] = np.exp(np.log(rel).mean(1)) rel *= 100 rel = np.round(rel).astype(np.int) rel.index.name = "Bit Gen" print(rel.to_csv(float_format=" ")) try: from tabulate import tabulate
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October 31, 2024 - You can sort this data before displaying it like this: from tabulate import tabulate employees = [ ['Ahmed', 30, 'Engineering'], ['Fatma', 25, 'Marketing'], ['Omar', 35, 'Sales'], ['Nour', 28, 'Engineering'] ] # Sort employees by age sorted_employees = sorted(employees, key=lambda x: x[1]) print(tabulate(sorted_employees, headers=['Name', 'Age', 'Department']))
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Tabulate also lets you transpose your table, :Table xp, to get this... event A B C D E eruption 3.600 1.800 3.333 2.283 4.533 waiting 79 54 74 62 85 · You can also sort by any column in the table, rearrange the columns, delete columns, or add new columns computed from the others.
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tabulate_formats = list(sorted(_table_formats.keys())) · · _invisible_codes = re.compile(r"\x1b\[\d+[;\d]*m|\x1b\[\d*\;\d*\;\d*m") # ANSI color codes · _invisible_codes_bytes = re.compile(b"\x1b\[\d+[;\d]*m|\x1b\[\d*\;\d*\;\d*m") # ANSI color codes · · · def simple_separated_format(separator): """Construct a simple TableFormat with columns separated by a separator.
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There are some light and useful python packages for this purpose:

1. tabulate

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate

from tabulate import tabulate
print(tabulate([['Alice', 24], ['Bob', 19]], headers=['Name', 'Age']))
Name      Age
------  -----
Alice      24
Bob        19

tabulate has many options to specify headers and table format.

print(tabulate(
    [['Alice', 24], ['Bob', 19]],
    headers=['Name', 'Age'],
    tablefmt='orgtbl'))
| Name   |   Age |
|--------+-------|
| Alice  |    24 |
| Bob    |    19 |

2. PrettyTable

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PrettyTable

from prettytable import PrettyTable
t = PrettyTable(['Name', 'Age'])
t.add_row(['Alice', 24])
t.add_row(['Bob', 19])
print(t)
+-------+-----+
|  Name | Age |
+-------+-----+
| Alice |  24 |
|  Bob  |  19 |
+-------+-----+

PrettyTable has options to read data from csv, html, sql database. Also you are able to select subset of data, sort table and change table styles.

3. texttable

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable

from texttable import Texttable
t = Texttable()
t.add_rows([['Name', 'Age'], ['Alice', 24], ['Bob', 19]])
print(t.draw())
+-------+-----+
| Name  | Age |
+=======+=====+
| Alice | 24  |
+-------+-----+
| Bob   | 19  |
+-------+-----+

with texttable you can control horizontal/vertical align, border style and data types.

4. termtables

https://github.com/nschloe/termtables

import termtables as tt

string = tt.to_string(
    [["Alice", 24], ["Bob", 19]],
    header=["Name", "Age"],
    style=tt.styles.ascii_thin_double,
    # alignment="ll",
    # padding=(0, 1),
)
print(string)
+-------+-----+
| Name  | Age |
+=======+=====+
| Alice | 24  |
+-------+-----+
| Bob   | 19  |
+-------+-----+

with texttable you can control horizontal/vertical align, border style and data types.

Other options

  • terminaltables - Easily draw tables in terminal/console applications from a list of lists of strings. Supports multi-line rows.
  • asciitable can read and write a wide range of ASCII table formats via built-in Extension Reader Classes.
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Some ad-hoc code:

row_format ="{:>15}" * (len(teams_list) + 1)
print(row_format.format("", *teams_list))
for team, row in zip(teams_list, data):
    print(row_format.format(team, *row))

This relies on str.format() and the Format Specification Mini-Language.

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June 10, 2023 - ... Thanks in advance for your replies! ... Ordering in Tabulate by "Order by count of grouping columns" and the Value Order column property are the only options available other than the default ordering by values.
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PrettyTable vs. Tabulate: which should you use? | by Amrina Rosyada | Medium
May 8, 2023 - ... Customization: Tabulate does ... or fine-tuning text alignment. Column sorting: Tabulate does not have a built-in feature to sort table rows based on specific column values....
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Tabulate: Your Go-To Solution for Stylish Tables in Python 👉 | by Manoj Das | Medium
August 19, 2023 - Limited Interaction: Tabulate is primarily designed for generating static tables for display purposes. It doesn’t provide interactive features like sorting, filtering, or data manipulation that you might find in more specialized table libraries or frameworks.
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datascience.tables.Table.sort — datascience 0.18.1 documentation
>>> marbles = Table().with_columns( ... "Color", make_array("Red", "Green", "Blue", "Red", "Green", "Green"), ... "Shape", make_array("Round", "Rectangular", "Rectangular", "Round", "Rectangular", "Round"), ... "Amount", make_array(4, 6, 12, 7, 9, 2), ... "Price", make_array(1.30, 1.30, 2.00, 1.75, 1.40, 1.00)) >>> marbles Color | Shape | Amount | Price Red | Round | 4 | 1.3 Green | Rectangular | 6 | 1.3 Blue | Rectangular | 12 | 2 Red | Round | 7 | 1.75 Green | Rectangular | 9 | 1.4 Green | Round | 2 | 1 >>> marbles.sort("Amount") Color | Shape | Amount | Price Green | Round | 2 | 1 Red | Rou