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textTuple = border(SHI)
for lines in textTuple:
print (lines)
Thanks your Bart for trying, I don't understand how it works or if you
tried to place my script in python to see if it would work, unfortunately,
I tried 10 different ways plus yours, and I don't see the connection.
Unless you were trying to help me see the way and I did not, sorry, but
thanks for trying. The characters did show me a little more.
Did you run my code fragment on it's own to see if it did the job?
The code can be packaged into a function border() just like you already
have:
def border(text):
maxwidth=0
for s in text:
if len(s)>maxwidth: maxwidth=len(s)
vertinchlines=6 # assume 6 lines/inch
hozinchchars=10 # assume 10 chars/inch
hozmargin=" "*hozinchchars
newtext=[]
for i in range(vertinchlines):
newtext.append("")
newtext.append(hozmargin+"*"*(maxwidth+4)+hozmargin)
newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+" "*maxwidth+" *"+hozmargin)
for s in text:
newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+s+" "*(maxwidth-len(s))+" *"+hozmargin)
newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+" "*maxwidth+" *"+hozmargin)
newtext.append(hozmargin+"*"*(maxwidth+4)+hozmargin)
for i in range(vertinchlines):
newtext.append("")
return newtext
And can be tested like this (obviously you will need to obtain SHI from the
input file):
SHI=["First Name and Last","ENGR 109-X","Fall 2999","Format Example"]
textTuple = border(SHI)
for lines in textTuple:
print (lines)
The text handling is clunky (I had to learn the Python as I went along), but
with these things you just want to get something working first, then you can
tweak.
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Bartc
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