ITables object with `_repr_html_()`

[vangberg]

Hi

I am working on a project where we support rendering various objects as HTML, as long as they respond to _repr_html_(). ITables already sort-of works like this by overwriting repr_html() on Polars and Pandas data frames. That works, but it requires some care in terms of resetting to the original _repr_html_().

What I would love was something like the great_tables GT object instead, i.e. wrapping the data frame in an ITables object, and letting that object respond to _repr_html_(), something like:

>>> t = ITable(my_df)
>>> t._repr_html_()

Would you be interested in something like that? If so, I would be happy to attempt an implementation.

[mwouts]

Hi @vangberg , thank you for reaching out! I am curious about the project you mentioned, would you have a link to share?

Re an ITable object, yes I did think of that a few times. I do like the possibility of piping transformations that Great Tables offers, but I am not sure what that would add to ITables - would you have an example where the object approach would improve the user experience?

Also have you seen the ITable widget? It is not plain HTML anymore, yet that's an existing example of an ITable object.