[Python] How to to parse html data table with characters and x-y coordinates and render them...

Here's the problem statement: use a link to a google doc and print the symbols per the x and y coordinates provided in the document. There are two google doc links provided in the assesment:

This is an "F":

https://docs.google.com/document/d/...C7lQiZm-CSEznKfN_HYNSpoXcZIV3Y_O3YoUB1ecq/pub

This is a lengthier secret message:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/...TvTFQI53erafhUkGot24ulET8ZRqFSzYoi3pLTGwM/pub

I found two codes that work to do this with similar success - they both seem to handle the lengthier message well, but both have a printing error when it comes to plotting the "F". You can see both codes in this reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1evo1zn/im_feeling_defeated/

I ran the code that is easier to understand and copying its output below:

• note: you may have to run it in a codespace and type "pip install html5lib" in your terminal in response to the initial error message.
• As you can see its plotting the "F" inverted - so I'm trying to understand where I'm going wrong? I'm also not fluent in fully understanding all the loops here.

Here is my script:

import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def getTableDataSorted(url):
tableData = pd.read_html(url, header=0, flavor='bs4')
return tableData[0].sort_values(by=["y-coordinate","x-coordinate"], ignore_index=True)


def printData(tableData):
xcoord = tableData['x-coordinate']
ycoord = tableData['y-coordinate']
char = tableData['Character']

for i in range(0, len(ycoord)):
if (i != 0) and (xcoord - xcoord[i - 1] != 1):
# empty spaces
print(" " * int((xcoord) - (xcoord[i - 1]) - 1), end='')
if (i !=0) and (ycoord != (ycoord[i - 1])):
# new line
print('\r')
print (char, end='')
print('\n')

tableData = getTableDataSorted("https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRMx5YQlZNa3ra8dYYxmv-QIQ3YJe8tbI3kqcuC7lQiZm-CSEznKfN_HYNSpoXcZIV3Y_O3YoUB1ecq/pub")
printData(tableData)
print(tableData)



Here's the terminal output:

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x-coordinate Character y-coordinate
0 0 █ 0
1 0 █ 1
2 1 ▀ 1
3 2 ▀ 1
4 0 █ 2
5 1 ▀ 2
6 2 ▀ 2
7 3 ▀ 2


The expected result was:

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Instead I'm getting this:

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