API: Would it be useful for everyone if DataFrame.to_html (and to_string) had an argument to specify justify settings for each column?

[numpand]

related #3190

Currently it is only possible to specify justify settings for column headers. This would extremely useful when used in conjunction with IPython Notebook.

[cpcloud]

i like this idea. want to submit a pr?

[jreback]

is there a standard way of doing this, e.g.

justify = [('foo','left'),('bar','right')]

or

justify_left = ['foo'], justify_right = ['bar']

or

style = dict(justify_left = ['foo'], justify_right = ['bar'])

?

[cpcloud]

@jreback i don't know. u don't think this is output-formatting tag material?

[jreback]

yes...but how to you specify to the function that you want to do this? there are other options in html as well (color e.g., that we may want to support in the future). Looking for a general API to pass output-formatting options. Which might be as simple as allowing column_label_formatter, row_label_formatter, cell_formatter as passed functions?

[cpcloud]

related #3190

[cpcloud]

but #3190 is long term and would require a significant time investment

[jreback]

It think pretty easy to pass a style=Formatter() where formatter is class that we define as a base class and advanced could sub-class. the engines then call out to format rows,columns,cells....

but agreed prob a bit of work to do correctly

[cpcloud]

someone could write a package and call it framer or framed to do this....

[cpcloud]

Formatter would work tho, while we don't have framed

[jreback]

or maybe Style

[jreback]

and HTMLStyle, TextStyle.....