Feature request: Set max list length when using fancy_grid

[r-bhikhie]

Is there any way to set a max number of items before the script draws a second table to the right of the first one?

If I have say, 50 items which are being listed in fancy_grid mode, ideally I want to display only 15 to 20 before my terminal runs out of vertical space.
So being able to give a parameter like "max_list_length=20" would be a nice option to have.

Thank you!

[kumareshr]

Really this request can come handy because long list character actually spoils the purpose of this module. if we able trim the characters would great.

[astanin]

This library is used in all sorts of contexts, interactive and non-interactive. If you want to paginate output, extract a slice of your data and pass it to tabulate() function.

So let's say you have a data with 50 rows, page size 5, and want to print the 4th page (0-indexed):

>>> data = [["text", i] for i in range(1, 50)]
>>> pagesize = 5
>>> print(tabulate(data[pagesize*3:pagesize*3+pagesize]))
----  --
text  16
text  17
text  18
text  19
text  20
----  --

The burden of getting user input to go to the next/previous page is out of scope of this library.

This is a duplicate of #88.