left, right, and center-aligned Markdown tables

[tanimislam]

I realize that Markdown is a mess, but for tablefmt="github" with stralign argument, the header line (which goes as -----------) can be modified as the following:

• stralign="left": header lines will have :---------.
• stralign="right": header lines will have ---------:.
• stralign="center": header lines have :--------:.

[samueljsb]

I just had a look at implementing this and realised that this is exactly what the 'pipe' format does. The README even points out that the 'github' format is the 'pipe' format without alignment markers, although I missed that the first time I read through the patterns.

[kdeldycke]

Had the same issue trying to produce a GitHub table with alignment directives. I ended up with a workaround to emulate that behavior. For reference, my hackish code is available at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/blob/af261b7194c592bbd45a6910bed8063fa6c59fbe/meta_package_manager/inventory.py#L56-L87

[kdeldycke]

For reference, I proposed a PR to address this issue at: #261

[astanin]

I suppose this feature is now covered by colon_grid format, pull request #341

[kdeldycke]

PR #341 that has been merged upstream does not fix this issue.

Here is the proof:

$ uvx -v --from "git+https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate.git" python -c "from tabulate import tabulate; print(tabulate([['Alice', 24], ['Bob', 19]], headers=['Name', 'Age'], tablefmt='github', colalign=('left', 'right')))"
...
DEBUG Fetching source distribution from Git: https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate.git
...
DEBUG Searching for a compatible version of tabulate @ git+https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate.git (*)
DEBUG Looking at `.dist-info` at: ~/.cache/uv/archive-v0/YogKmSah5W05iH5lIr1AV/lib/python3.14t/site-packages/tabulate-0.9.1.dev158+g74885be91.dist-info

| Name   |   Age |
|--------|-------|
| Alice  |    24 |
| Bob    |    19 |

If the issue I reported was addressed, we would have this printed instead:

| Name   |   Age |
|:-------|------:|
| Alice  |    24 |
| Bob    |    19 |

Can we re-open this issue and consider re-opening #261 ?

[kdeldycke]

FYI, this is not fixed in the brand new v0.10 release, so I made a new PR at: #410