[Tutor] Printing multi-line variables horizontally

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/08/14 09:50, Greg Markham wrote:

> I wanted to make it a little more interesting by using ascii art
> representations of the six die.  When printing, however, they do so
> vertically and not horizontally.  Here's a snippet of the code:
>
>
> die_1 = """
> .-----.
> |     |
> |  o  |
> |     |
> `-----'"""

The triple quoted strings have newlines embedded in them.

> print(die_1, die_2)
>
>
> So, how would I get this to display horizontally?
>
> Like so...
> .-----.   .-----.
> |     |   |o    |
> |  o  |   |     |
> |     |   |    o|
> `-----'   `-----'


You can split the strings and print each pair side by side separated by 
a gap. Sometjing like

die_1 = """
  .-----.
  |     |
  |  o  |
  |     |
  `-----'""".split()

etc...

separator = "       "
for index,line in enumerate(die1):
     print (line + separator + die2[index])

Untested, but I hope you get the idea.

PS. Personally I'd keep the dies in a list(or dict)
so you can access die1 as dies[0] and die2 as dies[1]

The index/key is then easily determined from the
roll value.

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