How to export to dict? about pytablereader

[thombashi]

Hi,

The following example can convert a markdown text to a dict:

import json
import pytablereader

t = """
|Borrower|Amount Given|Amount Repaid|Unpaid?|Original Thread|Date Given|
|:--|:--|:--|:--|:--|:--|
|zombievortex|250.00|250.00||[Original Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/borrow/comments/9wksak/req_250_chicago_il_usa_280_by_124_paypal/)|Nov 13, 2018| 
|zombievortex|150.00|150.00||[Original Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/borrow/comments/9txiri/req_150_chicago_il_usa_165_by_1110_paypal/)|Nov 3, 2018| 
|zombievortex|60.00|60.00||[Original Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/borrow/comments/9rslh7/req_60_chicago_il_usa_70_by_112_paypal_prearranged/)|Oct 27, 2018| 
|zombievortex|20.00|20.00||[Original Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/borrow/comments/9pq90e/req_20_chicago_il_usa_2250_by_1026_paypal_venmo/)|Oct 20, 2018|
"""

p = pytablereader.MarkdownTableTextLoader(t)
for i in p.load():
    # you can get dict by as_dict method
    print(json.dumps(i.as_dict(), indent=4))

{
    "markdown1": [
        {
            "Borrower": "zombievortex",
            "Amount Given": 250,
            "Amount Repaid": 250,
            "Unpaid?": "",
            "Original Thread": "Original Thread",
            "Date Given": "Nov 13, 2018"
        },
        {
            "Borrower": "zombievortex",
            "Amount Given": 150,
            "Amount Repaid": 150,
            "Unpaid?": "",
            "Original Thread": "Original Thread",
            "Date Given": "Nov 3, 2018"
        },
        {
            "Borrower": "zombievortex",
            "Amount Given": 60,
            "Amount Repaid": 60,
            "Unpaid?": "",
            "Original Thread": "Original Thread",
            "Date Given": "Oct 27, 2018"
        },
        {
            "Borrower": "zombievortex",
            "Amount Given": 20,
            "Amount Repaid": 20,
            "Unpaid?": "",
            "Original Thread": "Original Thread",
            "Date Given": "Oct 20, 2018"
        }
    ]
}

MarkdownTableTextLoader class expected to pass a whole markdown text (i.e. cannot parse lines of markdown).

[sometimescool22]

Thanks, works. 👍

[sometimescool22]

For anyone referring to this issue, I had to add this to thombashi's code:

json_object = json.loads(j)