Sphinx CSV filter

A CSV filter directive for docutils and Sphinx, that extends the "csv-table" reStructuredText directive to add row filtering options.

Details

The package depends on docutils, it provides a CSVFilterDirective, extending CSVTable. When used as a Sphinx extension, it will register the csv-filter Sphinx directive.

Installation

The Sphinx CSV filter plugin is available as a pip package.

To install, run:

$ pip install sphinx-csv-filter

To update, run:

$ pip install -U sphinx-csv-filter

Set Up

To include the extension, add this line to config.py in your Sphinx project:

extensions = ['crate.sphinx.csv']

If you're using other extensions, edit the existing list, or add this:

extensions.append('crate.sphinx.csv')

Use

This plugin adds the following options to the csv-table directive:

:included_cols:
This is a comma-separated list of column indexes to include in the output.

:include:
This option takes a Python dict specifying the column index (starting at zero) and a regular expression. Rows are included if the columnar value matches the supplied regular expression.

:exclude:
This option takes a Python dict specifying the column index (starting at zero) and a regular expression. Rows are excluded if the columnar value matches the supplied regular expression.

If a row matches an :include: as well as an :exclude: filter, the row with be excluded.

Here's an example:

.. csv-filter:: Example Table
   :header: Company,Contact,Country,Attend?
   :file: example.csv
   :exclude: {3: '(?i)Y\w*'}

In this example, rows from example.csv will be omitted from the output if the regular expression (?i)Y\w* matches value of the Attend? column.

Contributing

This project is primarily maintained by Crate.IO, but we welcome community contributions!

See the developer docs and the contribution docs for more information.

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