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I'm looking to print a dash "-" until the end of the user's screen. Basically my program would print a line of text and then a line of dashes beneath it and then another line of text. This would be ...

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I'm printing a title in python and I want it on the center of the screen. I know I can do it by using "{:^50}".format("Title") But the thing with this command is it only utilizes the width I give in ...

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I'm trying to find the width of the terminal window using python (3.8.2), so that I can store it in a variable. By doing this, I can centre text I display in the terminal, no matter the width of it. ...

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As a simple example, I want to write a CLI script which can print = across the entire width of the terminal window. #!/usr/bin/env php <?php echo str_repeat('=', ???); or #!/usr/bin/env python ...

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import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='tool') args = [('-u', '--upf', 'ref. upf', dict(required='True')), ('-s', '--skew', 'ref. skew', {}), ('-m', '--model', 'ref. ...

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I'm trying to let the user input commands at a console using raw_input(), this works fine. The problem is I have background threads that occasionally output log-information to the screen and when they ...

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I want to get the size of the terminal. I am using this functionality: import sys, struct, fcntl, termios s = struct.pack('HHHH', 0, 0, 0, 0) t = fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(), termios.TIOCGWINSZ,...

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I want to fill an entire line in the screen with * characters and stop just before break line? Something like this ********** MENU ********** Thanks

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Suppose I have these two lists: column1 = ["soft","pregnant","tall"] column2 = ["skin","woman", "man"] How do I loop print through these two lists while using a custom, fixed space(say 10, as in ...

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I've seen a question on justifying a 'print' right, but could I have text left and right on the same line, for a --help? It'd look like this in the terminal: | ...

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I am writing a Python script to print out displayable user interface. The problem is every Linux user would have their own unique terminal size. This will cause the hard-coded user interface to go out ...

6 votes

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I am looking at some source-code from a book and noticed that some of the code does not seem to be in the current Python2.7 API. The module curses is, according to this code, supposed to have a ...

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I tried the following code s='Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has a design ...

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Normally print ("{}".foo, end="\r") works well. But the exception is when foo is long, and next time foo becomes short. The output becomes incorrect. Below is an example: import time print ("{}"....

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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....