Python Tabulate formats characters as separate columns

Question

Using pandas, I am reading in a tab delimited file that looks like this:

with the following code:

pantry_file = pd.read_csv('/PantryList.txt', sep='\t')

Based on user input, I want to print out a nice looking table of all Items in this file. I am using tabulate to do this. The code looks like this:

print(tabulate(pantry_file.loc[: , "ITEM"], tablefmt='psql', headers=['Pantry Item'], showindex=False))

However, the resulting output treats each character as a column:

Wheres a traditional print statement looks like this:

My question is, why is tabulate treating each letter as a column, and how can I correct this?

Other info: Python 3.6 using Spyder through Anaconda.

Answer 1

This should fix it:

print(tabulate(list(map(lambda x:[x], pantry_file.loc[:, "ITEM"])), tablefmt='psql', headers=['Pantry Item'], showindex=False))

output:

+---------------+
| Pantry Item   |
|---------------|
| Butter        |
| Salt          |
| Chicken       |
| Beef Broth    |
| Pepper        |
| Milk          |
+---------------+