added an excel to markdown table converter

pyproject.toml

@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ requires = [
 
 [tool.flit.scripts]
 xls2changelog = "work_helpers.excel2changelog:cli"
+xls2markdown = "work_helpers.excel2markdown:cli"
 sg_mbp_release = "work_helpers.sg_mbp_release:sg_mbp_release"
 sg_mbp_new_version = "work_helpers.sg_mbp_release:sg_mbp_new_version"

work_helpers/excel2markdown.py

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+
+import click
+import pyperclip
+
+def split_table(text):
+    rows = []
+    for line in text.splitlines():
+        values = line.split("\t")
+        cells = [v.strip() for v in values]
+        rows.append(cells)
+    return rows
+
+
+def get_cell_lengths(table):
+    tmp = { }
+
+    for row in table:
+        for i, cell in enumerate(row):
+            if i not in tmp:
+                tmp[i] = []
+            tmp[i].append(len(cell))
+    
+    return {k: max(v) for k, v in tmp.items()}
+
+def build_table(table, lengths):
+    text_rows = [_build_row(row, lengths) for row in table]
+    header, *rest = text_rows
+    sep_items = [
+        "-" * lengths[k] for k in sorted(lengths.keys())
+    ]
+    separator = _build_line(sep_items)
+    lines = [header, separator] + rest
+    return  "\r\n".join(lines)
+
+def _build_row(row, lengths):
+    items = []
+    for i, cell in enumerate(row):
+        length = lengths[i]
+        items.append(cell.ljust(length))
+    return _build_line(items)
+
+def _build_line(items):
+    tmp = " | ".join(items)
+    return f"| {tmp} |"
+
+
+
+@click.command()
+def cli():
+    xls = pyperclip.paste()
+    table = split_table(xls)
+    lengths = get_cell_lengths(table)
+    result = build_table(table, lengths)
+    print("copied to clipboard")
+    pyperclip.copy(result)
+