Python lists to markdown table

pylist-to-markdown.py

def make_markdown_table(array):

    """ Input: Python list with rows of table as lists
               First element as header. 
        Output: String to put into a .md file 
        
    Ex Input: 
        [["Name", "Age", "Height"],
         ["Jake", 20, 5'10],
         ["Mary", 21, 5'7]] 
    """


    markdown = "\n" + str("| ")

    for e in array[0]:
        to_add = " " + str(e) + str(" |")
        markdown += to_add
    markdown += "\n"

    markdown += '|'
    for i in range(len(array[0])):
        markdown += str("-------------- | ")
    markdown += "\n"

    for entry in array[1:]:
        markdown += str("| ")
        for e in entry:
            to_add = str(e) + str(" | ")
            markdown += to_add
        markdown += "\n"

    return markdown + "\n"

Thanks for putting this out, saved me time and helped me automate a report for my job.

A more pythonic way making heavy use of f-strings would be something like

def make_markdown_table(array):
    """ the same input as above """

    nl = "\n"

    markdown = nl
    markdown += f"| {' | '.join(array[0])} |"

    markdown += nl
    markdown += f"| {' | '.join(['---']*len(array[0]))} |"

    markdown += nl
    for entry in array[1:]:
        markdown += f"| {' | '.join(entry)} |{nl}"

    return markdown

My take on it : https://gist.github.com/OsKaR31415/955b166f4a286ed427f667cb21d57bfd

It makes the table more readable (centers everything, aligns the columns), and it allows you to choose the markdown centering (the :--- syntax.

I also tried to make it as robust as possible to edge cases.

Having some implementation examples to use the above source code will be great. Thanks