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Convert markdown table rows to html (we converted some markdown tables to html so we could use the "scope" attribute in the header rows for accessibility).
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markdown-table-to-html.py
#tabedata.txt is a file that contains the piped markdown table rows
with open ('markdownrows.txt') as f:
content = f.readlines()
rows = []
for c in content:
cells = c.split('|')
cells = ['<td>{}</td>'.format(cell.strip()) for cell in cells]
rows.append(cells)
#htmltable.txt contains the html table rows
file = open('htmlrows.txt', 'w+')
for r in rows:
file.write('<tr>\n')
for c in r:
file.write(' {}\n'.format(c))
file.write('</tr>\n')
file.close()
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