Newbie, homework help, please.

[someone]

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:48:29 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote:
> "someone" <wesbroom at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9533449.630.1335042672358.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at ynmf4...
> > 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:


Thanks, Bart, it worked perfectly: I was the one doing wrong due to I was doing the indentation incorrectly, I messed it up and thought it was the code when it was me. Thank you so much, and have a blessed day.
> >  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