How to print a multiline string centralised (Python)

Question

I'm trying to print the following string in a centralised position in the console, but .center() doesn't seem to work

"""             ,      ,
             (.-""-.)
        |\  \/      \/  /|
        | \ / =.  .= \ / |
        \( \   o\/o   / )/
         \_, '-/  \-' ,_/
           v   \__/   v
           \ \__/\__/ /
         ___\ \|--|/ /___
       /`    \      /    `\
"""

Does this answer your question? [Center-aligning text on console in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8907236/center-aligning-text-on-console-in-python) — Rodrigo Rodrigues, Aug 23 '22 at 20:31
As it is a multiline, you'd prrobably need to do it on every line. Can you show some code? — Rodrigo Rodrigues, Aug 23 '22 at 20:32
Unfortunately not as that is done at the end of a string so I couldn't put it on everyline as its done outside the quotes, and doesn't work on multiline text files apparently, I tried it — AlexiBoxi, Aug 23 '22 at 20:35
You can call `splitlines()` to convert the multiline string into individual lines, which you can then each "center" based on some width — OneCricketeer, Aug 23 '22 at 20:37
i just tried that OneCricketeer and I ended up with a deformed version because the same center command doesn't alline all of them properly — AlexiBoxi, Aug 23 '22 at 20:44
The SO question may answer - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33594958/is-it-possible-to-align-a-print-statement-to-the-center-in-python — Jaganadh Gopinadhan, Aug 23 '22 at 21:51

crissal · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-23T21:02:06.930

The problem is that in your input string you have spaces before your pixel art. I used also the answer provided in the comments (link).

import shutil

SIZE = shutil.get_terminal_size()
COLUMNS = SIZE.columns


def tty_center_str(s: str):
    print(s.center(COLUMNS))


def tty_center_multiline(s: str):
    for line in s.splitlines():
        tty_center_str(line.strip())

Output:

>>> tty_center_multiline(s)
                                    ,      ,                                    
                                    (.-""-.)                                    
                               |\  \/      \/  /|                               
                               | \ / =.  .= \ / |                               
                               \( \   o\/o   / )/                               
                                \_, '-/  \-' ,_/                                
                                  v   \__/   v                                  
                                  \ \__/\__/ /                                  
                                ___\ \|--|/ /___                                
                              /`    \      /    `\

https://docs.python.org/3/library/textwrap.html – Peter Wood Aug 23 '22 at 21:31 — Peter Wood, Aug 23 '22 at 21:31

How to print a multiline string centralised (Python)

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