Need help looping thru list of tables and appending results to dbf

I have created a multiple tables using the ArcGIS 10.1 tabulate intersection tool and want to automate the following process in python 2.7 within an open map document:

I want a list of the table names (lakes, parks, voting districts, school zones) that will reference their respective tables on a field called "percentage".

For each table in the list
if <first item in list> table is empty
number=1
else if percentage between 0 and 100
number=2
else (percentage = 100)
number=3
property = name of item in the list

then output to dbf table (percentages) created on the fly that contains 2 fields: Property and Number, where Property equals "lakes" and Number equals the value of the number. (I will be iterating through several layer types and appending to a table.)

Thus record one will look like this if percentage is 36%:

Property Number
lakes 2

Repeat with next item on the list and append to percentages table.This if parks table was empty, the second record would be:

parks 1

Final table might look like this depending on results from tabulate intersection:

Property Number
lakes 2
parks 1
voting districts 2
school zones 3

Ideas as to how to do this in python?