converting text file to html file with python

Question

I have a text file that contains :

JavaScript              0
/AA                     0
OpenAction              1
AcroForm                0
JBIG2Decode             0
RichMedia               0
Launch                  0
Colors>2^24             0
uri                     0

I wrote this code to convert the text file to html :

contents = open("C:\\Users\\Suleiman JK\\Desktop\\Static_hash\\test","r")
    with open("suleiman.html", "w") as e:
        for lines in contents.readlines():
            e.write(lines + "<br>\n")

but the problem that I had in html file that in each line there is no space between the two columns:

JavaScript 0
/AA 0
OpenAction 1
AcroForm 0
JBIG2Decode 0
RichMedia 0
Launch 0
Colors>2^24 0
uri 0 

what should I do to have the same content and the two columns like in text file

Answer 1

Just change your code to include <pre> and </pre> tags to ensure that your text stays formatted the way you have formatted it in your original text file.

contents = open"C:\\Users\\Suleiman JK\\Desktop\\Static_hash\\test","r")
with open("suleiman.html", "w") as e:
    for lines in contents.readlines():
        e.write("<pre>" + lines + "</pre> <br>\n")

Answer 2

This is HTML -- use BeautifulSoup

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup()
body = soup.new_tag('body')
soup.insert(0, body)
table = soup.new_tag('table')
body.insert(0, table)

with open('path/to/input/file.txt') as infile:
    for line in infile:
        row = soup.new_tag('tr')
        col1, col2 = line.split()
        for coltext in (col2, col1): # important that you reverse order
            col = soup.new_tag('td')
            col.string = coltext
            row.insert(0, col)
        table.insert(len(table.contents), row)

with open('path/to/output/file.html', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.write(soup.prettify())