4 One dependency less

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just setup

tally uses tabulate for one table, of two columns. A few lines of its own draw the same table, and the project needs one package less.

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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.

A patch to src/tally/__init__.py.

src/tally/__init__.py has a function table, and main prints table(rows). Nothing imports tabulate now.

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.

What changed

src/tally/__init__.py: the function table, in place of tabulate. 10 lines added, 2 removed. The file.
- look at def table(rows: list[tuple[str, int]]) -> str:

The diff of src/tally/__init__.py

@@ -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)

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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:

This change came from running uv remove tabulate.

pyproject.toml no longer lists tabulate, and uv.lock no longer has it.

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

All four tests pass, without tabulate.

What changed

pyproject.toml: tabulate is gone. 0 lines added, 1 removed. It comes from uv remove tabulate. The file.
uv.lock: tabulate is gone. 1 line added, 14 removed. It comes from uv remove tabulate. The file.

The diff of pyproject.toml

@@ -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",
 ]

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