[Python] colored ascii art with pyfiglet

Your scripts are boring? Keep them interesting with some big ascii art characters!

The following code is an example of what can be created with just a few line of code.

The colorama module enable us to have the same behaviour as the posix auto coloring mode. If we are targeting a tty, then the color will show up, but if the actual stdout isn't directed to a tty, then the color mode is switch off.

import sys
from colorama import init
init(strip=not sys.stdout.isatty())
from termcolor import cprint
from pyfiglet import figlet_format

text="Awesome Character Ascii Art"
cprint(figlet_format(text, font="standard"), "blue") 

The standard font is the default, but there are many fonts you can try, like the starwars font for example. Here is the result of the former piece of code:



The width of your terminal is not autodetected by pyfiglet and it default to 80 columns.

If you want the newline support, you will need my version of pyfiglet (You can find it here) but it should be merged in the mainline pyfiglet in a few days/weeks. (EDIT: It's done, you can get it with pip install pyfiglet now)

If you want to have a width corresponding to the terminal your are using, you can use https://gist.github.com/jtriley/1108174.

You can then feed figlet_format with the newly calculated width:

cprint(figlet_format(text, font="standard", width=terminal_width), "blue")

Pyfiglet is a port of the figlet utility in python (versions 2.6 to 3.4 are supported). In fact it should behave the same way.

Have fun with your scripts ;)