Render table in Markdown format on unicode(dataset). Closes #41.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tablib/core.py b/tablib/core.py
index 1bdd49f..80f4418 100644
--- a/tablib/core.py
+++ b/tablib/core.py
@@ -223,6 +223,23 @@ class Dataset(object):
         except AttributeError:
             return '<dataset object>'
 
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        result = [self.__headers]
+
+        result.extend(map(unicode, row) for row in self._data)
+
+        # here, we calculate max width for each column
+        lens = (map(len, row) for row in result)
+        field_lens = map(max, zip(*lens))
+
+        # delimiter between header and data
+        result.insert(1, [u'-' * length for length in field_lens])
+
+        format_string = u'|'.join(u'{%s:%s}' % item for item in enumerate(field_lens))
+
+        return u'\n'.join(format_string.format(*row) for row in result)
+
+
 
     # ---------
     # Internals