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And here is a simple converter that uses tabulate but has somewhat like 
the pretty table object format that people are used to (could be away to 
get 90% of the common usage over to tabulate, minus the special 
prettytable users that are doing advanced things).

https://gist.github.com/harlowja/d5f4824b4ce0ea95530c

The grid output/format of tabulate seems to be pretty close to what 
prettytable output/format is (but my guess is there is some variation, 
just because of different authors/codebases...)

-Josh

Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11 2016, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
>> I suspect we could skip porting a lot of those, since they look like
>> clients and we're working to move all command line programs into the
>> unified client.
>
> Not really in the telemetry roadmap honestly. But we could move away
>  From prettytable without much burden anyway.
>
>> There are a few server projects, and I assume they are using the
>> lib in their management commands.  I'm sure there are shell scripts
>> out there parsing the rendered tables.  Does tabulate produce tables
>> using the exact same format as PrettyTable?
>
> We barely use it in Gnocchi, it could be easy to switch to something
> fancier. Back then, we just picked PrettyTable because every other
> project was using it and it was good enough for a quick CLI.
>
>> We could justify moving cliff, since it makes it easy to produce
>> more parsable output using selectable formatters, but some of those
>> other consuming projects may be a bit harder to change if we want
>> to maintain our backwards compatibility requirements.
>
> I think that's a good idea, gnocchiclient and aodhclient already rely on
> cliff for example, and ceilometerclient should switch at some point.
>
>> There are a few libraries on the list, too (automaton, ironic-lib), and
>> that's confusing. It would be interesting to know how they're using
>> table output.
>
> automaton uses it for its verbose mode, it's just 2 lines to change… :)
>
> Cheers,
>
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