Hi, sounds like a good idea, would also solve things like kxxoling/PTable#15 in the fork.

PR welcome!

Yeah I believe it would. Really, it would be nice to be able to specify a transformation function for the data, with the default being your escape function. I've sub classed and written my own _get_simple_html_string so that I can render every row as markdown, rather than it doing the default "escape" behaviour. So being able to specify that transformation function would be epic.

+1 for this, would like to be able to use HTML inside a cell (example below)
<progress class="progress" value="15" max="100">15%</progress>

👍 for this as well. My use case is nested html-rendered prettytables.

If no one else is looking to jump on this, I might find some time in the nearish future.

Asking if this feature is available already? I am trying to wrap values in one column with <a href> tags, but am getting this with get_html_string() this:

<a href='google.com' ...

Perhaps a switch or parameter to get_html_string() to disable escaping?

I tried _get_simple_html_string but it requires many options (and throws KeyError exceptions, e.g. line 1643).

Thanks
Gil

Asking if this feature is available already?

Not yet, PRs welcome!

Perhaps a switch or parameter to get_html_string() to disable escaping?

Yes, this is the original suggestion.

I tried _get_simple_html_string but it requires many options (and throws KeyError exceptions, e.g. line 1643).

Yep, in general not a good idea to use functions beginning with an underscore, they're private/internal and liable to change or removal with no warning.

Yup! Thanks!

You can always apply a workaround, and monkeypatch the html module:

import html
html.escape = lambda *args, **kwargs: args[0]
from prettytable import PrettyTable

Amazing!