Implement feature that allows to export tabular data suited to a… (#437)

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diff --git a/src/tablib/formats/_cli.py b/src/tablib/formats/_cli.py
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+"""Tablib - Command-line Interface table export support.
+
+   Generates a representation for CLI from the dataset.
+   Wrapper for tabulate library.
+"""
+from tabulate import tabulate as Tabulate
+
+
+class CLIFormat:
+    """ Class responsible to export to CLI Format """
+    title = 'cli'
+    DEFAULT_FMT = 'plain'
+
+    @classmethod
+    def export_set(cls, dataset, **kwargs):
+        """Returns CLI representation of a Dataset."""
+        if dataset.headers:
+            kwargs.setdefault('headers', dataset.headers)
+        kwargs.setdefault('tablefmt', cls.DEFAULT_FMT)
+        return Tabulate(dataset, **kwargs)