891293 - Make compare.py output tabular

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Talos, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Attachment: v.1 Add header, use tabs for columns & fix to 1 decimal place

This allows for easy copy-paste into a spreadsheet and makes it easier to visually scan IMO. 
* I added the heading because many people were confused about the output. 
* Some pieces of data showed too many decimal places so I fixed them to 1 in order to try reduce noise in the output.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Comment on attachment 772574 [details] [diff] [review]
v.1 Add header, use tabs for columns & fix to 1 decimal place

Review of attachment 772574 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I would be fine getting rid of the original format as it is.  We could do something like:

test      result      min      max      newvalue
ts_paint  pass        89       102      97
tpaint    fail        2000     2202     3141

note the spaces could be \t characters.

I am open to other formats which would be easier to use.  We could alternatively have a cli flag to output various formats of interest!

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

I pushed this for now with some tweaks to the headings to make them closer to your example.
https://hg.mozilla.org/build/talos/rev/d40aba1fb449