def rest_table(data, headers):
    """
    Creates reStructuredText table (grid format), allowing for multiline cells

    Arguments:
      data -- [((cell000, cell001, ...), (cell010, cell011, ...), ...), ...]
      headers -- sequence of strings: (header0, header1, ...)

    **Note** Tolerant to non-strings

    **Note** Cells may or may not be multiline

    >>> rest_table([["Eric", "Idle"], ["Graham", "Chapman"], ["Terry", "Gilliam"]], ["Name", "Surname"])
    """

    num_cols = len(headers)
    new_data, row_heights = expand_multirow_data(data)
    new_data = [[str(x) for x in row] for row in new_data]
    col_widths = [max([len(x) for x in col]) for col in zip(*new_data)]
    col_widths = [max(cw, len(s)) for cw, s in zip(col_widths, headers)]

    if any([x == 0 for x in col_widths]):
        raise RuntimeError("Column widths ({}) has at least one zero".format(col_widths))

    num_lines = sum(row_heights) # line != row (rows are multiline)

    # horizontal lines
    hl0 = "+"+"+".join(["-"*(n+2) for n in col_widths])+"+"
    hl1 = "+"+"+".join(["="*(n+2) for n in col_widths])+"+"

    frmtd = ["{0:{1}}".format(x, width) for x, width in zip(headers, col_widths)]
    ret = [hl0, "| "+" | ".join(frmtd)+" |", hl1]

    i0 = 0
    for i, row_height in enumerate(row_heights):
        if i > 0:
            ret.append(hl0)
        for incr in range(row_height):
            frmtd = ["{0:{1}}".format(x, width) for x, width in zip(new_data[i0+incr], col_widths)]
            ret.append("| "+" | ".join(frmtd)+" |")
        i0 += row_height

    ret.append(hl0)
    return ret