4 One dependency less

4.1 tally draws its own table

A function table draws the header, the rule of dashes, and the rows, with the same widths as tabulate.

Apply the patch to src/tally/__init__.py, from the top of the project:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/rahuldave/tally/commit/72b6c553d362423f55d6cf57aefbd53b5588beba.diff | git apply --include=src/tally/__init__.py

The patch removes from tabulate import tabulate, adds the function table above main, and calls it in place of tabulate.

uv run tally --top 3 --table data/corpus.txt

It prints the same table as tabulate printed. It has the header word and times, a rule of dashes, and three rows.

Check your files against this move. The command prints nothing when they match, and otherwise shows what differs:

git check 72b6c553d362

If you are stuck, this command puts the files of this move in place of yours. A file that you made yourself stays:

git restore --source 25f4f751628b --staged -- :/ && git restore --source 72b6c553d362 --staged --worktree -- :/

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import sys
 
-from tabulate import tabulate
 from talib import top
 
 
@@ -14,6 +13,15 @@ def count(text: str) -> dict[str, int]:
     return counts
 
 
+def table(rows: list[tuple[str, int]]) -> str:
+    "The rows under a header and a rule: the words on the left, the counts on the right."
+    left = max([len("word") + 2, *(len(word) for word, _ in rows)])
+    right = max([len("times") + 2, *(len(str(times)) for _, times in rows)])
+    lines = [f"{'word':<{left}}  {'times':>{right}}", f"{'-' * left}  {'-' * right}"]
+    lines += [f"{word:<{left}}  {times:>{right}}" for word, times in rows]
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
 def main() -> None:
     "Count the words of a file, or of the standard input. Options: --top N, and --table."
     args = sys.argv[1:]
@@ -29,7 +37,7 @@ def main() -> None:
     counts = count(text)
     rows = top(counts, n) if n else sorted(counts.items())
     if as_table:
-        print(tabulate(rows, headers=["word", "times"]))
+        print(table(rows))
         return
     for word, times in rows:
         print(times, word)

4.2 tabulate goes

Nothing imports tabulate now, but the project still depends on it. uv remove takes it out of pyproject.toml and uv.lock:

The author ran uv remove tabulate here. It writes pyproject.toml and uv.lock. On a later day, it can write newer versions of packages than the author's, and then git check finds that your files differ. So do not run it. Run this command in its place, from the top of the project. It takes each file as the author has it from the project, and installs exactly the versions that uv.lock names:

git restore --source 818eaf0e0f7c -- pyproject.toml uv.lock && uv sync --locked --all-groups --all-packages

uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests -q

All four tests pass, without tabulate.

Check your files against this move. The command prints nothing when they match, and otherwise shows what differs:

git check 818eaf0e0f7c

If you are stuck, this command puts the files of this move in place of yours. A file that you made yourself stays:

git restore --source 72b6c553d362 --staged -- :/ && git restore --source 818eaf0e0f7c --staged --worktree -- :/

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ description = "Count the words in a text"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
-    "tabulate>=0.9,<0.10",
     "talib",
 ]