Convert tabbed text to html unordered list?

Question

I\'m a beginner programmer so this question might sound trivial: I have some text files containg tab-delimited text like:

A
    B
    C
        D
        E
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Answer 1

Try this (works on your test case):

import itertools
def listify(filepath):
    depth = 0
    print "
"*(depth+1)
    for line in open(filepath):
        line = line.rstrip()
        newDepth = sum(1 for i in itertools.takewhile(lambda c: c=='\t', line))
        if newDepth > depth:
            print "
"*(newDepth-depth)
        elif depth > newDepth:
            print "
"*(depth-newDepth)
        print "
%s
" %(line.strip())
        depth = newDepth
    print "
"*(depth+1)

Hope this helps