It would be nice if there was a switch to overwrite tabulate's smart processing of numbers. I am printing table with several columns that might contain strings that look like numbers (e.g. 8.10). If one of the rows contains a letter in such column, all is good, because tabulate assumes the whole column should be treated as a text. But when my data set does not contain a letter in that column, the strings get treated as numbers and trailing zeroes are automatically removed, which is bad.