table.min_width is broken when using PLAIN_COLUMNS style about prettytable

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello Daniel,

I'm a new dev on this project, and I'm looking into this now. It appears that 
setting the style to PLAIN_COLUMNS:

x.set_style(pt.PLAIN_COLUMNS)

sets an internal right_padding_width variable to 8 spaces. That variable is 
what is giving you the extra space in your output. The preset styles are 
supposed to be quick default options, and the right padding width needs to be 
*something* - so 8 characters was chosen "Just as a style thing, man," as my 
old programming professor, Dr. Khabou would say.

If you want to change the padding width to, say, 1 instead of 8 either call

x.right_padding_width = 1

or instead of using set_style, make manual calls to all of the methods called 
therein:

x.header = True
x.border = False
x.padding_width = 1
x.left_padding_width = 0
x.right_padding_width = 1 # <<< this will cure what ails ya

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Jul 2014 at 9:04

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi John,

thanks for looking into this, I'll check and see if this works for me :) I've 
implemented a quality control tool using Python and prettytable for a simple 
report document, and it works nice for now. 

Thanks a lot for that piece of work and best regards,
Daniel

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Jul 2014 at 3:25