implemented additionally functionality of formatters_col in to_latex

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.2.0.rst

@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in output rendering of complex numbers showing too many trailing zeros (:issue:`36799`)
 - Bug in :class:`HDFStore` threw a ``TypeError`` when exporting an empty :class:`DataFrame` with ``datetime64[ns, tz]`` dtypes with a fixed HDF5 store (:issue:`20594`)
 - Bug in :class:`HDFStore` was dropping timezone information when exporting :class:`Series` with ``datetime64[ns, tz]`` dtypes with a fixed HDF5 store (:issue:`20594`)
+- In :meth:`to_latex` ``formatters`` now handles ``fstring`` and ``callable`` paramaters (:issue:`26278`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -3034,7 +3034,7 @@ def to_latex(
             Write row names (index).
         na_rep : str, default 'NaN'
             Missing data representation.
-        formatters : list of functions or dict of {{str: function}}, optional
+        formatters : list of functions/str or dict of {{str: function}}, optional
             Formatter functions to apply to columns' elements by position or
             name. The result of each function must be a unicode string.
             List must be of length equal to the number of columns.
@@ -3136,6 +3136,22 @@ def to_latex(
         if multirow is None:
             multirow = config.get_option("display.latex.multirow")
 
+        if is_list_like(formatters) and not isinstance(formatters, dict):
+            formatter_elems_type = all(
+                isinstance(elem, str) or callable(elem) for elem in formatters
+            )
+            if formatter_elems_type:
+                formatters = [
+                    (lambda style: lambda x: "{0:{1}}".format(x, style))(style)
+                    if isinstance(style, str)
+                    else style
+                    for style in formatters
+                ]
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Formatters elements should be f-strings or callable functions"
+                )
+
         self = cast("DataFrame", self)
         formatter = DataFrameFormatter(
             self,

pandas/tests/io/formats/test_to_latex.py

@@ -121,6 +121,27 @@ def test_to_latex_column_format(self):
         )
         assert result == expected
 
+    def test_to_latex_with_float_format_list(self):
+        # GH: 26278
+        data = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9.001]]
+        df = DataFrame(data, columns=["a", "b", "c"], index=["foo", "bar", "foobar"])
+
+        result = df.to_latex(formatters=["d", ".2f", lambda x: f"{x:.3f}"])
+        expected = _dedent(
+            r"""
+            \begin{tabular}{lrrr}
+            \toprule
+            {} & a &    b &     c \\
+            \midrule
+            foo    & 1 & 2.00 & 3.000 \\
+            bar    & 4 & 5.00 & 6.000 \\
+            foobar & 7 & 8.00 & 9.001 \\
+            \bottomrule
+            \end{tabular}
+            """
+        )
+        assert result == expected
+
     def test_to_latex_empty_tabular(self):
         df = DataFrame()
         result = df.to_latex()