Wrappers/Extenders- Companion Packages for Python Projects
summary
gt-extras extends Great Tables by shipping 3–5 concrete utilities: dumbbell and bar mini-plots rendered as SVGPY-generated SVGs, a one-line highlight-column wrapper, a theme composer and a truncate-for-p-values formatter. Code sits in a pyproject.toml package, uses pytest with snapshot tests + CI on GitHub Actions, and publishes metadata for PyPI. The companion package adds features that core Great Tables lacks, stays compatible via tests, and is actively maintained and shared.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Companion packages intro
- 1:09Bike-sharing analogy
- 6:07GT extras companion package
- 13:11Writing companion packages
- 19:31Wrapping and extending functions
- 21:38Packaging for distribution
- 28:20Benefits of companion packages
- 29:24Q&A
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