Converter for Minecraft server ban-lists. Just put the banned-players.txt as argument and this script will convert it into a beautiful table for use in DokuWiki. Licensed under the WTFPL, so do what the f... you want to do! :-)

conv-banlist-dokuwiki.py

"""
A converter for Minecraft server ban-lists. It will convert the ugly 
banned-players.txt into a beautiful table for use in DokuWiki.

Copyright (c) 2013 Maik Marschner

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To
Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for more details.
"""
  
import sys
import os

STR_PLAYER    = 'Player' #Translation for 'Player' in the table header
STR_BANNED_ON = 'Ban date' #Translation for 'Ban date' in the table header
STR_DATE_FMT  = '%Y-%m-%d' #Your custom date format, see strftime-Syntax for more information

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
   print 'You must give a filename as parameter.'
   sys.exit(1)
   
#Preparing...
filename = sys.argv[1]
banned = []

#Reading file, filling array...
try:
   f = file(filename, 'r')
   for line in f:
      if len(line.strip()) > 0 and not line.strip().startswith('#'):
         data = line.split('|')
         from datetime import datetime
         date = datetime.strptime(data[1].split(' ')[0], "%Y-%m-%d")
         banned.append((data[0], date))
   f.close()
except Exception:
   print 'An error occured while reading the file.'
   sys.exit(2);
  
try:
   #Saving file...
   savename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filename), 'banned-players-table.txt')
   f = open(savename, 'w')
   f.write("^ {0:25} ^ {1:10} ^\n".format(('{} ({})'.format(STR_PLAYER, len(banned))), STR_BANNED_ON))
   for player in banned:
      f.write("| {0:25} | {1:10} |\n".format('%%{}%%'.format(player[0]), player[1].strftime(STR_DATE_FMT)))
   f.close()
   print 'Beautiful table saved to {}'.format(savename)
except:
   print 'An error occured while saving the file.'
   sys.exit(3);