work-helpers/work_helpers/excel2pylist.py

import click
import pyperclip

def _strip_parts(iterable):
    return [item.strip() for item in iterable]

def _replace_empty_strings(iterable, replacement="None"):
    return [i or replacement for i in iterable]

def prepare(text):
    lines = text.splitlines()

    # replacing the german decimal separator with the standard english dot
    correct_separator = (l.replace(",", ".") for l in lines)
    parted = (l.split("\t") for l in correct_separator)
    stripped = (_strip_parts(l) for l in parted)
    return [_replace_empty_strings(l) for l in stripped]


def get_cell_lengths(table):
    # get the max lenght of each column
    in_columns = zip(*table)
    columns_lenghts = (map(len, c) for c in in_columns)
    return [max(c) for c in columns_lenghts]


def pad_field(index, t):
    value, length = t
    if index == 0:
        return value.rjust(length)
    else:
        return value.ljust(length)

def pad_fields(iterable, lengths):
    return [pad_field(i, t) for i, t in enumerate(zip(iterable, lengths))]

def build_list(table, lengths):
    padded = (pad_fields(l, lengths) for l in table)
    padded_lines = (", ".join(l) for l in padded)
    lines_as_list = (f"    [{l}],  # noqa: E201, E202, E203, E501," for l in padded_lines)
    list_content = "\n".join(lines_as_list)
    return f"[\n{list_content}\n]\n"


@click.command()
def cli():
    xls = pyperclip.paste()
    table = prepare(xls)
    lengths = get_cell_lengths(table)
    result = build_list(table, lengths)
    print("copied to clipboard")
    pyperclip.copy(result)