Treat Strings like Items on a 2D Canvas

With this primitive library you can do things like this:

from ascii_canvas import canvas
from ascii_canvas import item

canvas_ = canvas.Canvas()

rect_a = item.Item('+-----+\n|Hello|\n+-----+', position=[0, 0])
rect_b = item.Item('+-----+\n|World|\n+-----+', position=[16, 5])
rect_c = item.Item('+-+\n|!|\n+-+', position=[32, 0])
line_a = item.Line(start=[7, 1], end=[15, 6])
line_b = item.Line(start=[23, 6], end=[31, 1])

canvas_.add_item(rect_a)
canvas_.add_item(rect_b)
canvas_.add_item(rect_c)
canvas_.add_item(line_a)
canvas_.add_item(line_b)
print(canvas_.draw())

Which results in this output:

+-----+                         +-+
|Hello|----+               +----|!|
+-----+    |               |    +-+
           |               |
           |               |
           |    +-----+    |
           +----|World|----+
                +-----+

Type hints

The library contains Python3.6-style type hints. For lower Python versions the hints are however stripped on the fly with strip-hints!, making ascii-canvas compatible all the way down to Python 2.6. Please note that in Python < 3.6 you can NOT import the classes directly due to the stripping of the type hints, so stick with the way that the example imports the module.

rayluo/ascii-canvas

Treat Strings like Items on a 2D Canvas

Type hints