Convert tabular data to YAMLular data.

toyaml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Convert tabular data to YAMLular data.')
parser.add_argument("-d", "--delimiter", help="delimiter to use (defaults to \\t)", default="\t")
args = parser.parse_args()

header = sys.stdin.readline().strip().split(args.delimiter)
for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
    print "-",
    for k, v in zip(header, line.strip().split(args.delimiter)):
        print "{0}: {1}".format(k, v)