Scripts to simplify the syntax for MultiMarkdown tables.

commas_mmdtable.py

import re

table = '''First Header,Second Header,Third Header
1st Item,2nd\,Item,3rd Item
,One cell,Two cells
Two cells,One cell, 
Awesome'''

ttable = [[re.sub('\\\,',',',cell) for cell in re.split('(?<!\\\),', row)] for row in table.split('\n')]

columnCount = len(ttable[0])
barCount = columnCount + 1
headerSeparator = '|:-' * columnCount + '|'

ttable2 = ['|' + '|'.join([cell.rstrip() if cell != ' ' else cell for cell in row]) + '|' for row in ttable]

for row in enumerate(ttable2):
	rowCount = row[1].count('|')
	if rowCount < barCount:
		ttable2[row[0]]+='|' * (barCount - rowCount)

ttable2.insert(1, headerSeparator)

print '\n'.join(ttable2)

ios_mmdtable.py

import re
import sys
import webbrowser
import urllib

table = sys.argv[1]

ttable = [[re.sub('\\\,',',',cell) for cell in re.split('(?<!\\\),', row)] for row in table.split('\n')]

columnCount = len(ttable[0])
barCount = columnCount + 1
headerSeparator = '|:-' * columnCount + '|'

ttable2 = ['|' + '|'.join([cell.rstrip() if cell != ' ' else cell for cell in row]) + '|' for row in ttable]

for row in enumerate(ttable2):
	rowCount = row[1].count('|')
	if rowCount < barCount:
		ttable2[row[0]]+='|' * (barCount - rowCount)

ttable2.insert(1, headerSeparator)

callback = 'drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=%s' % urllib.quote('\n'.join(ttable2))

webbrowser.open(callback)

spaces_mmdtable.py

import re

table = '''First Header  Second Header  Third Header
1st Item  2nd Item  3rd Item
One cell  Two cells
Two cells   One cell
Awesome'''

ttable = [re.split('(?<=\s)\s', row) for row in table.split('\n')]

columnCount = len(ttable[0])
barCount = columnCount + 1
headerSeparator = '|:-' * columnCount + '|'

ttable2 = ['|' + '|'.join([cell.rstrip() for cell in row]) + '|' for row in ttable]

for row in enumerate(ttable2):
	rowCount = row[1].count('|')
	if rowCount < barCount:
		ttable2[row[0]]+='|' * (barCount - rowCount)

ttable2.insert(1, headerSeparator)

print '\n'.join(ttable2)