Pass colalign argument through to tabulate#97
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In tabulate_adapter.adapter(), permit the colalign argument to be passed in kwargs. This argument can be used by the application to set known desirable column alignments based on column types, without expensive numparse checks. In addition, this works reliably with nullable numeric columns, whereas the numparse logic does not.
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After dbcli/cli_helpers#97 we can set the alignment on a per-column basis using the colalign parameter. In this PR we upgrade cli_helpers and set colalign for columns with a numeric type. This is more performant than using tabulate's numparse capability, and unlike numparse, works on nullable numeric columns. The default alignment for numeric columns is changed from left to right, on the basis that this is the default for the vendor client. However, the user is free to change it back in ~/.myclirc .
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In
tabulate_adapter.adapter(), permit thecolalignargument to be passed inkwargs.This argument can be used by the application to set known desirable column alignments based on column types, without expensive numparse checks.
In addition, this works reliably with nullable numeric columns, whereas the numparse logic does not.
xref #96 which never was able to work.
xref dbcli/mycli#1102 which this intends to fix.
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CHANGELOG.AUTHORSfile (or it's already there).pip install pre-commit && pre-commit install), and ranblackon my code.