new_contents: from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals
  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
  import sys
  
  # This is one way to load a file into a variable:
  # lh = open("/Users/mruten/Projects/jacksontriggs/app/assets/javascripts/jt/contactUsComments.html").read()
  
  # But, we'll read from standard input, so we can pipe output to it
  # i.e. run with cat filename.html | this_file.py
  data = sys.stdin.readlines()
  # print "Counted", len(data), "lines."
  data = "".join(data)
  # die
  #sys.exit()
  
  # root = data.tostring(sliderRoot) #convert the generated HTML to a string
  try:
      soup = bs(data, 'lxml')                # make BeautifulSoup
  except:
      soup = bs(data, 'html.parser')                # make BeautifulSoup
  prettyHTML = soup.prettify()   # prettify the html
  
  print(prettyHTML)
  
  
  
subject: update format_html.py