Я думал, что смогу взломать что-нибудь вместе за несколько минут, но форматирование текста в столбцы сложнее, чем я думал. Однако вот что я получил до сих пор, все еще довольно глючный ...
class format_lines(object):
"""
1) some text goes 2nd column of text
here. But not its not really that
all text goes hard to add more text
in this column in a given format
2) another point
for text
"""
def __init__(self, *args, **kargs):
self.max_char_width = 30
self.gutter_width = 15
self.gutter = ' '*self.gutter_width
self.previous_line1 = None
self.previous_line2 = None
self.p1_index = 0
self.p2_index = 0
print args
print "len args = ", len(args)
if len(args) == 2:
print "Starting the test"
self.print_lines_(args[0], args[1])
def print_lines_(self, p1, p2):
while self.p1_index < len(p1.split()):
this = self.format_line_(p1, p2)
p1=this['p1']
p2=this['p2']
print this['line']
#problem with this format is it's going to messup words by
#pushing them to the next line (this could be fixed with a -
#or this function could be rewritten
def format_line_(self, p1, p2):
#must first figure out amount of words that can fit on a line
p1_words = [""]
p2_words = [""]
if p1:
p1_words = p1.split(' ')
p1_words = p1_words[self.p1_index:]
if p2:
p2_words = p2.split(' ')
p2_words = p2_words[self.p2_index:]
#format left side's output
loutput = p1_words[0]
if len(loutput) < self.max_char_width:
for i, word in enumerate(p1_words[1:]):
if (len(loutput) + len(word)) <= self.max_char_width:
loutput += (' {0}'.format(word))
self.p1_index = i
else:
break
self.p1_index+=1 #for loop iteration starts at index 1 not 0 so
#a +1 is required
elif (len(loutput) > self.max_char_width):
long_word = []
long_word.append(loutput[:len(loutput)/2])
long_word.append(loutput[len(loutput)/2:])
long_word[0]+='-'
p1_words[0]=long_word[0]
p1_words.insert(1, long_word[1])
p1 = ' '.join(p1_words)
else:
#the left output is a single word
#equal to the max_char_width
pass
#need to add 1 to the index, because at least 1 element in the list is
#going to be printed
self.p1_index+=1
#format right side's output
routput = p2_words[0]
if len(routput) < self.max_char_width:
for word in p2_words[1:]:
if (len(routput) + len(word)) <= self.max_char_width:
routput += (' {0}'.format(word))
else:
break
self.p2_index+=1
elif len(routput) > self.max_char_width:
long_word = []
long_word.append(routput[:len(routput)/2])
long_word.append(routput[len(routput)/2:])
long_word[0]+='-'
p2_words[0]=long_word[0]
p2_words.insert(1, long_word[1])
p2 = ' '.join(p2_words)
else:
#the right output is a single word
#equal to the max_char_width
pass
self.p2_index+=1
#determin gutter size
if len(loutput) < self.max_char_width:
loutput+=(' '*(self.max_char_width-len(loutput)))
#do not need to append spaces to the right hand size
output = ''
#if previous_line1 is not defined then there should be no way that previous_line2 is defined
if not self.previous_line1:
#must be the first line of a bullet point
output = '1){0}{1}{2}{3}'.format(self.gutter,
loutput,
self.gutter,
routput)
self.previous_line1 = loutput
self.previous_line2 = routput
else:
p1_width = len(self.previous_line1)
p2_width = len(self.previous_line2)
if loutput<p1_width:
loutput+=(' '*(len(self.previous_line1)-p1_width))
if routput<p2_width:
routput+=(' '*(len(self.previous_line2)-p2_width))
output = ' {0}{1}{2}{3}'.format(self.gutter,
loutput,
self.gutter,
routput)
ret_val = {'line':output, 'p1':(' '.join(p1_words)), 'p2':(' '.join(p2_words))}
return ret_val
if __name__ == '__main__':
t1 = "this is a very long line of text much larger than you can fit on one line"
t2 = "this is another long line, only this line is a little different from the first line"
test = format_lines(t2, t1)