Makes an HTML table.

make_table.py

def make_table(data, delim='\t', table_id='make_table', classname=''):
    """
    Converts delimited data into an HTML table. 
    - `data` is a string, with rows delimited by newlines.
    - Default cell delimiter for each row is a tab.
    """
    output = []
    output.append('<table id="%s" class="%s">' % (table_id, classname))
    for row in data.strip().split('\n'):
            cells = row.strip().split(delim)
            tag = 'td'
            if data.strip().split('\n').index(row) == 0:
                tag = 'th'
                output.append('  <thead>')
            output.append('    <tr>')
            for cell in cells:
                output.append('      <%s>%s</%s>' % (tag, cell.strip(), tag))
            output.append('    </tr>')
            if data.strip().split('\n').index(row) == 0:
                output.append('  </thead>')
                output.append('  <tbody>')
    output.append('  </tbody>')
    output.append('</table>')
    return '\n'.join(output)