threeparttable incompatible with tabu

[bonanza123]

I am not sure whether this is a problem on tabu or threeparttable side, but I could not find a way to contact the author of the latter, I am hoping that the fix can be applied on the tabu side.

I am just linking to this post, which is not mine but which has exactyl the same problem (I have no clue why it is marked as duplicate).

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/383142/using-threeparttable-with-tabu?noredirect=1&lq=1

[assignUser]

Threeparttable does not recognize tabu as a tabular environment. This code I lightly modified from SE fixes this. I keep it in a file with several other patches and only want it to be executed if tpt is used.

\makeatletter
\@ifpackageloaded{threepartable}{%
    \@ifpackageloaded{xpatch}{}{\usepackage{xpatch}}
    \chardef\TPT@@@asteriskcatcode=\catcode`*
    \catcode`*=11
    \xpatchcmd{\threeparttable}
    {\TPT@hookin{tabular}}
    {\TPT@hookin{tabular}\TPT@hookin{tabu}}
    {}{}
    \catcode`*=\TPT@@@asteriskcatcode}{}
\makeatother