Option to set column min width about prettytable HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for this suggestion.  I like it, and will endeavour to add it to a 
future version.

I am planning on releasing 0.7 later today, since it has been a long time and 
many fixes/improvements have accumulated but are not seeing widespread use.

I think I will put your request off until the next release, though, since the 
code to do with table size is surprisingly subtle, and since I haven't worked 
on pt in a long time I'm not currently "in the zone" and worry that it might 
take me a while to get it right, and I don't want to delay 0.7.

Hopefully you won't have to wait too long.

Thank you.

Best regards

Hi there.  This feature is now implemented in trunk.  It works the first way 
you suggested, i.e. you can set table.min_width["fieldname"] to set minimum 
widths for individual fields.

You can also set table.min_table_width=80, say, to set a minimum width for the 
whole table.  However, at the moment you can't specify a particular column to 
expand.  Instead all columns are expanded in proportion to their pre-expansion 
width to take up the extra space.

Please feel free to test these features and give me any feedback.  Sorry for 
the long wait!