ENH: Simplify table2string implementation #1403
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The previous table2string implementation reimplemented Python formatting, calculating spaces for aligning left, right or center. This patch just translates our mini-language into the Python mini-language, and updates the tests.
Previously, when centering required adding an odd number of spaces, we added the extra to the left, while Python adds to the right. This difference does not seem worth preserving.
This also avoids allocating a numpy array in order to transpose by using the
zip(*list)
trick. Finally, we concatenate the strings in single shots, which separates the entry formatting from the table formatting and makes the function easier to understand, IMO.