tap grew out of the need of having an simple and unified interface to interact with tabular data. Our daily business required reading and writing hundreds of small files with tabular content. These files did not warrant to be put into a relational database. That's why we developed tap.
import tap
ages = tap.Tab(name=['Anton', 'Moritz', 'Theo'],
age=[25,66,32])
ages.sort('age')
print ages
# age name
# -------------
# 25 Anton
# 32 Theo
# 66 Moritz
salaries = tap.Tab(name=['Anton', 'Moritz', 'Theo'],
salary=[100,200,150])
merged = tap.merge(ages, salaries, by='name')
print merged
# age name salary
#---------------------
# 66 Moritz 200
# 32 Theo 150
# 25 Anton 100 The documentation for the latest version of tap is available here