Newbie, homework help, please.

[BartC]

"someone" <wesbroom at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:44:49 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote:

> Hi, Bart: Thank you, your post is working now, maybe, I did something
> wrong, unfortunately, you are right, my setup for getting the file to pull
> up correctly now is an issue, At first, I got a Vertical line with it
> working, then I tried to tinker with it, and it fratched, lol
> def border(text):
> maxwidth=0
> for s in text:
>  if len(s)>maxwidth: maxwidth=len(s)
> vertinchlines=6    # assume 6 lines/inch
> hozinchchars=10    # assume 10 chars/inch
> hozmargin=" "*hozinchchars
> newtext=[]
> for i in range(vertinchlines):
>  newtext.append("")
> newtext.append(hozmargin+"*"*(maxwidth+4)+hozmargin)
> newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+" "*maxwidth+" *"+hozmargin)
> for s in text:
>  newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+s+" "*(maxwidth-len(s))+" *"+hozmargin)
> newtext.append(hozmargin+"* "+" "*maxwidth+" *"+hozmargin)
> newtext.append(hozmargin+"*"*(maxwidth+4)+hozmargin)
> for i in range(vertinchlines):
>  newtext.append("")
> return newtext
> x=textfile;indat=open(x,'r');SHI=indat.read()
> textTuple = border(SHI)
> for lines in textTuple:
> print ("%s\n" %textTuple)
>
>
> The issue is trying to get the SHI to work right, but omg, this is the
> closes I have gotten, you are awsome, thank you very much, i guess i will
> just keep messing with it till i get it

I had to use this code to make this work right from a file (in additon to 
the border() function):

textfile="kkk4"     # (don't use this; this was my test input)

x=textfile;indat=open(x,'r');

SHI=indat.readlines()
indat.close()

for i in range(len(SHI)):    # remove trailing '\n' from each line
 s=SHI[i]
 SHI[i]=(s[0:len(s)-1])

textTuple = border(SHI)

for lines in textTuple:
 print (lines)

Your indat.read() seemed to read all the lines as one long string. I used
indat.readlines() instead. However each line has a newline char '\n' at the
end. I put in a loop to get rid of that (I'm sure there's a one-line fix to
do that, but as I said don't know Python).

The input file I used had to have this format:

First Name and Last
ENGR 109-X
Fall 2999
Format Example

-- 
Bartc