docs: def parse_table(table_string, header, remove_rows=1):
      '''parse a table to json from a string, where a header is expected by default.
         Return a jsonified table.
  
         Parameters
         ==========
         table_string: the string table, ideally with a header
         header: header of expected table, must match dimension (number columns)
         remove_rows: an integer to indicate a number of rows to remove from top
                      the default is 1 assuming we don't want the header
      '''
      rows = [x for x in table_string.split('\n') if x]
      rows = rows[0+remove_rows:]
  
      # Parse into json dictionary
      parsed = []
  
      for row in rows:
          item = {}
          # This assumes no white spaces in each entry, which should be the case
          row = [x for x in row.split(' ') if x]
          for e in range(len(row)):
              item[header[e]] = row[e]
          parsed.append(item)
      return parsed