wrap yaml into main to avoid it auto-running on validate through the import

yaml_to_html.py

@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ def linkify_cell(value):
 
     def repl(m):
         url = m.group(1)
-        href = url if url.lower().startswith(("http://", "https://")) else f"https://{url}"
+        href = (
+            url if url.lower().startswith(("http://", "https://")) else f"https://{url}"
+        )
         return f'<a href="{href}">{url}</a>'
 
     return URL_RE.sub(repl, value)
 
+
 yaml_file = "problems.yaml"
 
 html_dir = "docs/"
@@ -29,51 +32,63 @@ def repl(m):
 html_footer = f"{html_dir}footer.html"
 html_index = f"{html_dir}index.html"
 
-# Load data
-with open(yaml_file) as in_file:
-    data = pd.json_normalize(yaml.safe_load(in_file))
-
-# Choose desired columns
-all_columns = False
-default_columns = ["name",
-                   "textual description",
-                   "suite/generator/single",
-                   "objectives",
-                   "dimensionality",
-                   "variable type",
-                   "constraints",
-                   "dynamic",
-                   "noise",
-                   "multi-fidelity",
-                   "source (real-world/artificial)",
-                   "reference",
-                   "implementation"]
-
-if all_columns is False:
-    columns = default_columns
-    data = data[columns]
-
-data = data.map(linkify_cell)
-
-# Generate plain table
-table = data.to_html(render_links=False,
-                     escape=False,  # Don't escape HTML in cells (to allow links)
-                     index=False,
-                     table_id="problems",
-                     classes=["display compact", "display", "styled-table"],  # Set display style
-                     border=0,
-                     na_rep="")  # Leave NaN cells empty
-
-# Add footer to facilitate individual column search
-idx = table.index('</table>')
-final_table = table[:idx] + "<tfoot><tr>" + " ".join(["<th>"+ i +"</th>" for i in data.columns])+"</tr> </tfoot>" + table[idx:]
-
-# Write table to file
-with open(html_table, "w") as table_file:
-    table_file.write(final_table)
-
-# Merge table and scripts into HTML page
-with open(html_index, "wb") as output_file:
-    for in_file in [html_header, html_table, html_scripts, html_footer]:
-        with open(in_file, "rb") as in_file:
-            shutil.copyfileobj(in_file, output_file)
+default_columns = [
+    "name",
+    "textual description",
+    "suite/generator/single",
+    "objectives",
+    "dimensionality",
+    "variable type",
+    "constraints",
+    "dynamic",
+    "noise",
+    "multi-fidelity",
+    "source (real-world/artificial)",
+    "reference",
+    "implementation",
+]
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Load data
+    with open(yaml_file) as in_file:
+        data = pd.json_normalize(yaml.safe_load(in_file))
+
+    # Choose desired columns
+    all_columns = False
+
+    if all_columns is False:
+        columns = default_columns
+        data = data[columns]
+
+    data = data.map(linkify_cell)
+
+    # Generate plain table
+    table = data.to_html(
+        render_links=False,
+        escape=False,  # Don't escape HTML in cells (to allow links)
+        index=False,
+        table_id="problems",
+        classes=["display compact", "display", "styled-table"],  # Set display style
+        border=0,
+        na_rep="",
+    )  # Leave NaN cells empty
+
+    # Add footer to facilitate individual column search
+    idx = table.index("</table>")
+    final_table = (
+        table[:idx]
+        + "<tfoot><tr>"
+        + " ".join(["<th>" + i + "</th>" for i in data.columns])
+        + "</tr> </tfoot>"
+        + table[idx:]
+    )
+
+    # Write table to file
+    with open(html_table, "w") as table_file:
+        table_file.write(final_table)
+
+    # Merge table and scripts into HTML page
+    with open(html_index, "wb") as output_file:
+        for path in [html_header, html_table, html_scripts, html_footer]:
+            with open(path, "rb") as src:
+                shutil.copyfileobj(src, output_file)