I've been using a lot of tables to control the layout of a quixote application I'm writing. I was getting tired of generating these manually and considered writing a class to represent them in python. This seemed like something someone else might have tackled already, and upon searching I came accross Joe Pasko's PyHtmlTable script: http://www.pasko.net/PyHtmlTable/

After a few quick tweaks to incorporate quixote's idea of htmltext I was up and running with a very clean representation for tables. (I'll attach a modified version) Click here to download PyHtmlTable.py