--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/textshaper/tablify.py	Thu Mar 13 13:53:41 2014 -0700
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+def format_cols(rows, header=None, right_align=()):
+    if header:
+        raise NotImplementedError('TODO') # -> record TODO items
+    if not rows:
+        return # XXX header
+    assert len(set([len(row) for row in rows])) == 1
+    rows = [[str(col) for col in row]
+            for row in rows]
+    lengths = [max([len(row[i]) for row in rows])
+               for i in range(len(rows[0]))]
+    rows = [[col + ' '*(length-len(col)) for col, length in zip(row, lengths)]
+            for row in rows]
+    return rows
+
+
+def tablify(table_lines, header=True):
+    """=> HTML table"""
+    table = '<table>\n'
+    if header:
+        tag, invtag = '<th> ', ' </th>'
+    else:
+        tag, invtag = '<td> ', ' </td>'
+    if not hasattr(table_lines, '__iter__'):
+        table_lines = ( table_lines, )
+    for i in table_lines:
+        table += '<tr>'
+        if not hasattr(i, '__iter__'):
+            i = (i,)
+        for j in i:
+            table += tag + str(j) + invtag
+        table += '</tr>\n'
+        tag = '<td> '
+        invtag = ' </td>'
+    table += '</table>'
+    return table