feature: determine how many trailing spaces to add or remove

src/md_to_py.py

@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ def _pad_columns(row: str, widths: tuple[int, ...] | int, delimiter: str = "|")
     column_count = row.count(delimiter) - 1
 
     if isinstance(widths, tuple) and len(widths) != column_count:
-        raise ValueError("`widths` cannot be a tuple of arbitrary length")
+        raise ValueError(
+            "`widths` cannot be a tuple of arbitrary length. "\
+            f"Is {len(widths)}, should be {column_count}."
+        )
 
     if isinstance(widths, int):
         widths = tuple(repeat(widths, column_count))
@@ -88,6 +91,7 @@ def _pad_columns(row: str, widths: tuple[int, ...] | int, delimiter: str = "|")
     backward_count = 1
     trailing_space_start = 0
     prev_delimiter_index = 0
+    change_amount = 0
     new_row = ""
 
     while count < len(row):
@@ -100,20 +104,19 @@ def _pad_columns(row: str, widths: tuple[int, ...] | int, delimiter: str = "|")
                 widths[column] < non_space_len
             ):  # maybe off by 1 error, as doesn't account for one trailing space
                 raise ValueError(
-                    f"Width of column `{column}` cannot be less than\
-                    {non_space_len}, is {widths[column]}"
+                    f"Width of column `{column}` cannot be less than "\
+                    f"{non_space_len}, is {widths[column]}"
                 )
             prev_delimiter_index = count
             if widths[column] == non_space_len:
                 backward_count = 1
                 count += 1
+                column += 1
                 continue
-            if non_space_len + backward_count > widths[column]:
-                raise NotImplementedError("Make the amount of spaces smaller")
-                backward_count = 1
-                continue
-            raise NotImplementedError("Make the amount of spaces larger")
+            change_amount = widths[column] - non_space_len - backward_count + 1
+            print(f"change the amount of spaces by {change_amount}")
             backward_count = 1
+            column += 1
         count += 1
         # - add or remove trailing spaces based on that value
         # (and the value of widths for that column)