Generate ASCII art without any packages

ascii.py

def ascii_art(text):
    characters = [' ', '.', '*', ':', 'o', '&', '8', '#', '@']
    output = ''

    for char in text:
        index = ord(char) % len(characters)
        output += characters[index] + '  '

    return output

print(ascii_art('Hello World!'))

"""
This code maps each character in the input text to a character in the characters list,
based on the ASCII value of the character. The resulting ASCII art is built up from these characters.
"""