# Convert numpy array into tabular

I am doing some data analysis in python, putting the results in form of a matrix stored into a numpy array. I would like to put this results into a report and the best way would be to put a table with a tabular inside containing the data.

Is anyone aware of a quick way to output latex code from python, or any other way I could use to quickly format an array into a tabular code latex can handle ?

Thanks.

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Can't you use something like print " & ".join([str(entry) for entry in row]) for each row? Here, row is a vector of numbers. –  Yori May 8 '12 at 22:06
@Yori thanks! I used something like this before seeing Paulo's and Mike's answers and it worked. –  user11170 May 9 '12 at 0:54

It's been a while since I played with NumPy, but I used to call the numpy.savetxt function to export my data as a .csv format:

import numpy
A = numpy.random.randn(4,4)
numpy.savetxt("mydata.csv", A)


The sample file mydata.csv was generated accordingly:

1.058690791897618361e-01 4.236767150069661314e-01 -9.871862191240249329e-02 1.896410657805123634e+00
-3.688082441801866507e-01 -6.185162583308108086e-01 7.779589745526608313e-01 -1.718082361568575633e+00
-2.750126418674324058e-01 1.636150392013778487e-01 -5.227282169549336555e-01 6.038835633452429574e-01
-1.113971762033877821e+00 -1.572603551712207670e+00 -6.206581544211196011e-01 -1.960843071998005893e+00


With the magic of pgfplotstable, we could do the following:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\centering
\pgfplotstabletypeset[dec sep align,
fixed zerofill,
precision=4,
col sep=space]{mydata.csv}
\end{table}

\end{document}


I don't know if it's possible to remove the headers, but in any case I'll ask Christian Feuersänger about it. :)

My good friend percusse provided a nice way of removing those headers:

\pgfplotstabletypeset[%
fixed zerofill,
precision=4,
col sep=space,
dec sep align,
columns/0/.style ={column name=},
columns/1/.style ={column name=},
columns/2/.style ={column name=},
columns/3/.style ={column name=},
]{mydata.csv}


Another, well, "way" of doing it is by tricking numpy.savetxt to act as:

numpy.savetxt("mydata.csv", a, delimiter=' & ', fmt='%2.2e', newline=' \\\\\n')


which will give us the following output file:

1.21e+00 & 3.52e-01 & -5.53e-01 & 7.28e-01 \\
-1.61e+00 & 6.72e-01 & 5.75e-01 & -1.00e+00 \\
3.60e-01 & 1.68e-01 & -1.65e+00 & 2.10e-01 \\
5.73e-01 & -7.29e-03 & 1.65e+00 & -1.37e+00 \\


You could remove the last \\ and paste it inside a tabular enviroment. And thanks to siunitx, we get a nice formatting:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{SSSS}
1.21e+00 & 3.52e-01 & -5.53e-01 & 7.28e-01 \\
-1.61e+00 & 6.72e-01 & 5.75e-01 & -1.00e+00 \\
3.60e-01 & 1.68e-01 & -1.65e+00 & 2.10e-01 \\
5.73e-01 & -7.29e-03 & 1.65e+00 & -1.37e+00
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}


At last but not least, datatool can also be used. Unfortunately, it seems that datatool does not recognize scientific notation as real values, so it treats like a string value. To fix it, I exported my .csv file with a comma as delimiter and with fixed-point values:

numpy.savetxt("mydata.csv", a, delimiter=',', fmt='%2.2f')


which will generate the following output:

1.24,-0.96,-1.51,-0.21
0.93,-1.37,0.30,-0.89
0.33,-0.16,-1.27,-0.02
1.08,1.22,0.29,0.15


Now, our LaTeX code, based on Alan's answer:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}

\sisetup{%
parse-numbers=false,
table-number-alignment=left,
table-figures-integer=4,
table-figures-decimal=4,
input-decimal-markers={.}
}
\renewcommand*\dtlrealalign{S}

\centering
\DTLdisplaydb{db}
\end{table}

\end{document}


By using \DTLdisplaydb, headers are mandatory. If you don't want them, you can iterate through the values of the .csv value instead.

You can obtain more information on those packages by searching their tags: , ,

Thanks to Jake, percusse and Alan. :)

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wow that's amazing! thanks! –  user11170 May 9 '12 at 0:53
you can add every head row/.style={typeset cell/.style={}}, as option to \pgfplotstabletypeset. This will omit the header row. In fact, it will omit an empty header row. I will think about a suitable style which makes this accessable in a simpler way. –  Christian Feuersänger May 9 '12 at 19:48

Working from [SciPy-User] 2d array to Latex:

\$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>> import numpy
>>> a=numpy.zeros((2,2))
>>> print " \\\\\n".join([" & ".join(map(str,line)) for line in a])
0.0 & 0.0 \\
0.0 & 0.0
>>>


Add on tabular, table, and other environments or commands as needed.

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Beautiful solution, Mike! :) –  Paulo Cereda May 9 '12 at 0:17
Since numpy.set_printoptions(precision=3) didn't work for me in the combination with Mikes answer, here is a little upgrade which allows defining the precision.
print " \\\\\n".join([" & ".join(map('{0:.3f}'.format, line)) for line in a])

The precision is changed by changing the 0:.3f to the required number of digits.