Convert the referece data to a html output

convert2html.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
__author__ = 'Ernest Murray'
__Created__: 08/09/2015

This script takes the content of a file, in this case a tab separated file and
converts it to an html table. The headers for html file are contained in the text file.
The output is given in the sys.out field.
# https://goo.gl/Hn1nzf
# https://goo.gl/ZY5JYJ
"""
# TODO(EM): direct the output to a html file
import csv
from prettytable import PrettyTable


with open("data.txt", "r") as fp:
    reader = csv.DictReader(fp, dialect='excel-tab')
    ptable = PrettyTable(reader.fieldnames)
    for rowdict in reader:
        ptable.add_row([rowdict[fn] for fn in reader.fieldnames])

    print ptable.get_html_string()

fp.close()