pip install -U git+http://github.com/bufordtaylor/python-texttable

apt-get install python-texttable

from texttable import Texttable, get_color_string, bcolors

table = Texttable()

table.set_cols_align(["l", "r", "c"])

table.set_cols_valign(["t", "m", "b"])

table.add_rows([ [get_color_string(bcolors.GREEN, "Name Of Person"), "Age", "Nickname"],

["Mr\nXavier\nHuon", 32, "Xav'"],

[get_color_string(bcolors.BLUE,"Mr\nBaptiste\nClement"), 1, get_color_string(bcolors.RED,"Baby")] ])

print(table.draw() + "\n")

table = Texttable()

table.set_deco(Texttable.HEADER)

table.set_cols_dtype(['t', # text

'f', # float (decimal)

'e', # float (exponent)

'i', # integer

'a']) # automatic

table.set_cols_align(["l", "r", "r", "r", "l"])

table.add_rows([["text", "float", "exp", "int", "auto"],

["abcd", "67", 654, 89, 128.001],

["efghijk", 67.5434, .654, 89.6, 12800000000000000000000.00023],

["lmn", 5e-78, 5e-78, 89.4, .000000000000128],

["opqrstu", .023, 5e+78, 92., 12800000000000000000000]])

print(table.draw())