Vertical Print String - Python3.2

Question

I'm writing a script that will take as user inputed string, and print it vertically, like so:

input = "John walked to the store"

output = J w t t s
         o a o h t
         h l   e o
         n k     r
           e     e
           d

I've written most of the code, which is as follows:

import sys

def verticalPrint(astring):
    wordList = astring.split(" ")
    wordAmount = len(wordList)

    maxLen = 0
    for i in range (wordAmount):
        length = len(wordList[i])
        if length >= maxLen:
            maxLen = length

    ### makes all words the same length to avoid range errors ###
    for i in range (wordAmount):
        if len(wordList[i]) < maxLen:
            wordList[i] = wordList[i] + (" ")*(maxLen-len(wordList[i]))

    for i in range (wordAmount):
        for j in range (maxLen):
            print(wordList[i][j])

def main():
    astring = input("Enter a string:" + '\n')

    verticalPrint(astring)

main()

I'm having trouble figure out how to get the output correct. I know its a problem with the for loop. It's output is:

input = "John walked"

output = J
         o
         h
         n

         w
         a
         l
         k
         e
         d

Any advice? (Also, I want to have the print command used only once.)

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '13 at 19:07

12

Use itertools.zip_longest:

>>> from itertools import zip_longest
>>> text = "John walked to the store"
for x in zip_longest(*text.split(), fillvalue=' '):
    print (' '.join(x))
...     
J w t t s
o a o h t
h l   e o
n k     r
  e     e
  d

answered Oct 27 '13 at 19:07

Ashwini Chaudhary

244,495
58
464
504

Very nice. Or `izip_longest` on python 2.x – wim Oct 27 '13 at 19:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '13 at 19:21

Thanks so much for the help! That definitely worked!

I ended up speaking to a friend of mine not long after posting this, and I modified the for loops to the following:

newline = ""

    for i in range (maxLen):
        for j in range (wordAmount):
            newline = newline + wordList[j][i]
        print (newline)
        newline = ""

which worked beautifully as well.

score -2 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 09 '20 at 15:13

-2

a = input()
for x in range (0,len(a)):
    print(a[x])

edited Dec 09 '20 at 15:13

Michael

3,093
7
39
83

answered Dec 09 '20 at 11:29

Suveil

1

This does not solve the OP's problem, this will only print all letters in new lines, your indentation is messed and you did not add any explanation to your code, try to edit your answer or consider removing it, as it is incorrect. – Ruli Dec 09 '20 at 11:56

Vertical Print String - Python3.2

3 Answers3

Linked