jazzband/tablib

Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.

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Tablib: format-agnostic tabular dataset library

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Tablib is a format-agnostic tabular dataset library, written in Python.

Output formats supported:

Excel (Sets + Books)
JSON (Sets + Books)
YAML (Sets + Books)
Pandas DataFrames (Sets)
HTML (Sets)
Jira (Sets)
LaTeX (Sets)
TSV (Sets)
ODS (Sets)
CSV (Sets)
DBF (Sets)
SQL (Sets)

Note that tablib purposefully excludes XML support. It always will. (Note: This is a joke. Pull requests are welcome.)

Tablib documentation is graciously hosted on https://tablib.readthedocs.io

It is also available in the docs directory of the source distribution.

Make sure to check out Tablib on PyPI!

Contribute

Please see the contributing guide.

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tablib

Latest release

3.10.0 · Jul 31, 2026

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Olivier Grisel

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