[Tutor] Fwd: Printing multi-line variables horizontally

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

It looks ilke this WONDERFUL mailing list which does not do something
as basic as a sane Reply-to header made me send a response to the OP
only.  Here it is again:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Printing multi-line variables horizontally
To: Greg Markham <greg.markham at gmail.com>


On Aug 8, 2014 7:22 PM, "Greg Markham" <greg.markham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Python novice back again.  :)  I'm making progress in my learning process, but struggling whenever attempting to creatively go beyond what's required in the various chapter assignments.  For example, there's a simple random die roller program that looks like the following:
>
>
> # Craps Roller
> # Demonstrates random number generation
>
> import random
>
> # generate random numbers 1 - 6
> die1 = random.randint(1, 6)
> die2 = random.randrange(6) + 1
>
> total = die1 + die2
>
> print("You rolled a", die1, "and a", die2, "for a total of", total)
>
> input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
>
>
> 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_2 = """
> .-----.
> |o    |
> |     |
> |    o|
> `-----'"""
>
> print(die_1, die_2)
>
>
> So, how would I get this to display horizontally?
>
> Like so...
> .-----.   .-----.
> |     |   |o    |
> |  o  |   |     |
> |     |   |    o|
> `-----'   `-----'
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
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You would need to do some extra work. Specifically, you must split the
string into lines, and print them side-by-side and line-by-line. Like
this:

die_1 = [
".-----.",
"|o    |",
"|     |",
"|    o|",
"`-----'",
]

die_2 = [
".-----.",
"|     |",
"|  o  |",
"|     |",
"`-----'",
]

for l, r in zip(die_1, die_2):
    print(l, r)

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