Allow regex-based include/exclude filters on colums as well?

[bavovanachte]

First off, thanks for this plugin. It's very helpful for the current issues I'm facing in documenting some matrices in sphinx.

I've had to adapt your plugin in order for it to be useable for me though. In my use case, I have the same labels in the header row (column 0) as in the row 0, something like this:

Now, I'd like to be able to filter this table, for example by showing only "condition1" and "condition2", so the filter needs to be applied both to the rows as to the columns, based on a regex (the included_cols option is not useable as the indices are not known beforehand)

I have a quick-and-dirty solution for this ready that works fine for my use case, but I'm wondering it this is something that you would accept to include as a feature in the main project as well. If so, I can make a proposal for what the configuration could look like

[amotl]

Dear Bavo,

thank you for writing in. While I currently don't see the need for this feature on our end, it definitively can not hurt to have a pull request submitted to the repository. Based on that, other people interested into the same feature can reuse the code easily, even if we would eventually not integrate it into mainline.

I am also pinging the original author and previous maintainers here, maybe this sparks some interest to carry your proposed feature forward.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

/cc @mikethebeer, @NOROSA, @chaudum

[nomicode]

Thanks @amotl. As it stands, I doubt I will have any need for this plugin anymore. Apologies.

[amotl]

Dear @bavovanachte,

@aalapd also signaled interest in filtering rows instead of columns, at #38.

I have a quick-and-dirty solution for this ready that works fine for my use case, but I'm wondering it this is something that you would accept to include as a feature in the main project as well. If so, I can make a proposal for what the configuration could look like.

Maybe you can submit your proposal as a pull request, even in a quick-and-dirty state? In this manner, we can see collaboratively how to move forward with it. In the meanwhile, it may be useful for others.

Thank you in advance and with kind regards,
Andreas.

[bavovanachte]

Hi @amotl

Sure, I was using a copy of just csv.py in my sphinx build repository. I've pushed that to a branch without any modifications or cleanup (sorry, don't really have time to dig back into it at the moment). See #44

[amotl]

Hi @bavovanachte. Thank you so much! 🌻