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prettytable

v0.10.0 Growing

A library for printing pretty formatted tables in terminal

BSD-3-Clause Edition 2018
Command-line interface #table#format#tab#pretty#print

Quick Verdict

  • โœ•Not updated for 3+ years
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.1K crates depend on it)

Security

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Downloads
1.8M
Dependents
1.1K
Releases
1
Size
35KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

141.6K downloads in the last 30 days (4.7K/day), up 17% from the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.1K crates depend on prettytable. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

prettytable has only 1 owner despite 1.1K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 3+ years old, prettytable hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 35KB, prettytable is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include automerge, taos-query, near-cli-rs, aderyn_core, rsbench. When high-quality crates choose prettytable, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 1/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
4K/day avg+73%
02K4K6K12/291/162/32/213/113/28

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.10.0
100%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["win_crlf", "csv"]

evcxrwin_crlf*

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
6
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.1K
crates depend on prettytable

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