csv2html_list.py

''' gist below can accept a csv list with unicode coding, for example list of names from around the world as in example'''
import csv,codecs,cStringIO
import jinja2
''' copied from StackExchange'''
class UTF8Recoder:
    def __init__(self, f, encoding):
        self.reader = codecs.getreader(encoding)(f)
    def __iter__(self):
        return self
    def next(self):
        return self.reader.next().encode("utf-8")

class UnicodeReader:
    def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8-sig", **kwds):
        f = UTF8Recoder(f, encoding)
        self.reader = csv.reader(f, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
    def next(self):
        '''next() -> unicode
        This function reads and returns the next line as a Unicode string.
        '''
        row = self.reader.next()
        return [unicode(s, "utf-8") for s in row]
    def __iter__(self):
        return self

class UnicodeWriter:
    def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8-sig", **kwds):
        self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO()
        self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
        self.stream = f
        self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)()
    def writerow(self, row):
        '''writerow(unicode) -> None
        This function takes a Unicode string and encodes it to the output.
        '''
        self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row])
        data = self.queue.getvalue()
        data = data.decode("utf-8")
        data = self.encoder.encode(data)
        self.stream.write(data)
        self.queue.truncate(0)

    def writerows(self, rows):
        for row in rows:
            self.writerow(row)
            
''' meat of the conversion'''            
raw_template=r'''<ul>
{% for person in people %}
  <li style="margin-left: 20px;">{{person[1]}} {{person[0]}}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>'''
list_template=jinja2.Template(raw_template)
with open('./list_of_people.csv') as list_of_people:
    people_reader=UnicodeReader(list_of_people,delimiter=',') #it is a comma separated file
    
    print list_template.render(people=list(people_reader)) # prints the html list in this case of people