I had a bunch of stylish tables to make once long ago, and I thought, “why don’t I do that automatically?” It would take longer the first time, but it would be faster in future iterations. Unfortunately, there never were any future iterations, but fortunately, it was more fun to research automatic generation of stylish tables than do what I needed to get done.
The seeds I planted have started to sprout a little bit, though, and the latest pandas now supports openpyxl2 which supports a lot of style. So here is a start on the stylish table writing feature.
Healthy Algorithms 