Text-to-ASCII art generator in Python
ascii-art, python
Solution
Author of the TAAG app you linked here. Most of the fonts in TAAG are FIGlet fonts (figlet.org). FIGlet is a command line linux app, but FIGlet drivers have been written in several languages. I released the driver I wrote in JavaScript here:
https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js
Though that would need to be ported to Python to work. I did a search for FIGlet Python libraries and found this:
https://github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet
I'm not sure how well it works, or how much of the spec it implements, but it looks pretty complete.
Problem
I would like to add an easter egg to one our developers' command line tools, which will greet its user if a certain date is matched. Basically, I'm looking for: ```` >>> print big_text("Happy\nBirthday") . _________ _...._ _________ _...._ .'| \ |.' '-. \ |.' '-. .-. .- < | \ .'```'. '.\ .'```'. '.\ \ / / | | __ \ | \ \\ | \ \\ \ / / | | .'''-. .:--.'. | | | | | | | | \ \ / / | |/.'''. \ / | \ | | \ / . | \ / . \ \ / / | / | | `" __ | | | |\`'-.-' .' | |\`'-.-' .' \ ` / | | | | .'.''| | | | '-....-'` | | '-....-'` \ / | | | | / / | |_ .' '. .' '. / / | '. | '.\ \._,\ '/'-----------' '-----------' |`-' / '---' '---'`--' `" _______ '..' /| .--. . \ ___ `'. || |__| .'| ' |--.\ \ .-. .- || .--..-,.--. .| < | | | \ ' \ \ / / || __ | || .-. | .' |_ | | | | | ' __ \ \ / / ||/'__ '. | || | | | .' || | .'''-. | | | | .:--.'. \ \ / / |:/` '. '| || | | |'--. .-'| |/.'''. \ | | ' .'/ | \ | \ \ / / || | || || | '- | | | / | | | |___.' /' `" __ | | \ ` / ||\ / '|__|| | | | | | | |/_______.'/ .'.''| | \ / |/\'..' / | | | '.'| | | |\_______|/ / / | |_ / / ' `'-'` |_| | / | '. | '. \ \._,\ '/|`-' / `'-' '---' '---' `--' `" '..' ```` Is there a package for that? Credit where credit is due.