ASCII Characters Text Align

Question

I'm coding a very small and basic text based adventure game in python, and I want to be able to align my title (which is in ASCII) I've looked it up but I either didn't understand it or it didn't work.

Here is the ASCII:

  ________            ___                         
 /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _
  / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/
 / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ / 
/_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/

(It's not really creative, I know)

I want to get it to align to the center, is that possible?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '18 at 07:13

You can use the str.center method. The code below assumes a screen width of 80 characters:

s = '''  ________            ___                         
 /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _
  / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/
 / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ / 
/_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/ '''
print('\n'.join(l.center(80) for l in s.splitlines()))

This outputs:

                 ________            ___                                        
                /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _               
                 / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/               
                / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ /                
               /_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/

CodiMech25 · Answer 2 · 2018-07-31T07:44:08.940

I would:

get the size of terminal window (columns mainly) - linux command: "stty -a", windows command: "mode con" - and parse the cli output, or do it like in here: How to get Linux console window width in Python
get the max size of the text (the line with most columns needed)
and then: padding_left = (terminal_columns - text-max_columns) / 2 , ceil or floor the number as you wish
prepend all the text lines with so many spaces as the padding_left value is

EDIT

Here's an example (Works under Linux and Windows):

import shutil
import math


def str_repeat(string, length):
    return (string * (int(length / len(string)) + 1))[:length]


def print_center(lines_out):
    columns, rows = shutil.get_terminal_size()
    max_line_size = 0
    left_padding = 0

    for line in lines_out:
        if max_line_size == 0 or max_line_size < len(line):
            max_line_size = len(line)

    if columns > max_line_size:
        left_padding = math.floor((columns - max_line_size) / 2)

    if left_padding > 0:
        for line in lines_out:
            print(str_repeat(' ', left_padding) + line)


lines = [
    '  ________            ___',
    ' /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _',
    '  / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/',
    ' / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ /',
    '/_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/'
]

print_center(lines)

Output:

                 ________            ___
                /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _
                 / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/
                / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ /
               /_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/

Process finished with exit code 0

Output screenshot

Can you put that into simpleton terms? I'm only just starting to learn python. — Francois van Kempen, Jul 31 '18 at 06:50
Thanks mate, I've decided on a different method but yours did work! — Francois van Kempen, Jul 31 '18 at 10:07

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '18 at 07:00

You could, line by line, add the number of white space needed to center your text.

here is one approach, where you must provide the text to be centered, and the width available:

def align_center(text, width):
    lext = text.split('\n')
    for line in lext:
        assert len(line) < width, 'insufficient width'
    max_w = max(len(line) for line in lext)
    res = []
    for line in lext:
        res.append(' ' * ((width - max_w) // 2))
        res.append(line)
        res.append('\n')
    return ''.join(res)


text = """  ________            ___                         
 /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _
  / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/
 / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ / 
/_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/  """

centered = align_center(text, 90)
print(centered)

output:

              ________            ___                         
             /_  __/ /_  ___     /   |  ________  ____  ____ _
              / / / __ \/ _ \   / /| | / ___/ _ \/ __ \/ __ `/
             / / / / / /  __/  / ___ |/ /  /  __/ / / / /_/ / 
            /_/ /_/ /_/\___/  /_/  |_/_/   \___/_/ /_/\__,_/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 01 '20 at 15:53

0

Don't type ASCII art by yourself - use text2art:

from art import *

text2art("The Arena")

The alternative for this is:

from art import *

tprint("The Arena")

To center this, do the following:

from art import *

string="The Arena"
new_string = string.center(90)

tprint(new_string)

or (using text2art instead):

text2art(new_string)

answered Jan 01 '20 at 15:53

monkey

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This was ages ago, I eventually found text2art or something similar and used that, was much easier. Thanks, though. – Francois van Kempen Jan 24 '20 at 05:06
@FrancoisvanKempen Many people would prefer text2art, although my personal favourite is tprint. – monkey Jan 24 '20 at 17:43
I believe I used colorama and tprint? I can't really remember, it was for an assessment task 2 years ago. – Francois van Kempen Jan 25 '20 at 04:02

ASCII Characters Text Align

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