monty.string module¶
Useful additional string functions.
monty.string.boxed(msg, ch=’=’, pad=5)¶
Returns a string in a box
Parameters
msg – Input string.
ch – Character used to form the box.
pad – Number of characters ch added before and after msg.
>>> print(boxed("hello", ch="*", pad=2))
***********
** hello **
***********
monty.string.indent(lines, amount, ch=’ ‘)¶
Indent the lines in a string by padding each one with proper number of pad characters
monty.string.is_string(s)¶
True if s behaves like a string (duck typing test).
monty.string.list_strings(arg)¶
Always return a list of strings, given a string or list of strings as input.
Examples
>>> list_strings('A single string')
['A single string']
>>> list_strings(['A single string in a list'])
['A single string in a list']
>>> list_strings(['A','list','of','strings'])
['A', 'list', 'of', 'strings']
monty.string.marquee(text=’’, width=78, mark=’*’)¶
Return the input string centered in a ‘marquee’.
Parameters
text (str) – Input string
width (int) – Width of final output string.
mark (str) – Character used to fill string.
Examples
>>> marquee('A test', width=40)
'**************** A test ****************'
>>> marquee('A test', width=40, mark='-')
'---------------- A test ----------------'
marquee(‘A test’,40, ‘ ‘) ‘ A test ‘
monty.string.remove_non_ascii(s)¶
Remove non-ascii characters in a file. Needed when support for non-ASCII is not available.
Parameters s (str) – Input string
Returns String with all non-ascii characters removed.
monty.string.unicode2str(s)¶
Forces a unicode to a string in Python 2, but transparently handles Python 3.
Parameters s (str/unicode) – Input string / unicode.
Returns str in Python 2. Unchanged otherwise.