Takes in a CSV file with names/text, one on each line, and sequentially generates ASCII art for each line content, confirming the font for that before fixing the rendered output. Use the fontlist at the beginning of the script to add/remove fonts of your choosing from the `art` python package. Give a ridiculously large number for `howmany` if yo…

roster-to-door-decs.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3

####
# A program to generate door decorations for incoming students based on their
# names using some nice ASCII (a.k.a. computer-generated) art.
# GPL 3+
# (C) 2019 Aalok S.


from art import text2art
import csv
from pathlib import Path
import itertools
import re
import random


fonts = itertools.cycle([
            '6x10',
            'alligator3',
            'asc',
            'banner3',
            'bell',
            #'block',
            'charact2',
            'colossal',
            #'cybermedium',
            'epic',
            'georgia11',
            #'graceful',
            'jacky',
            'poison',
            'starwars',
        ])


rosterfile = Path(input('enter path to your roster stored as a csvfile:\t'))
names = []
with rosterfile.open('r') as csvfile:
    reader = csv.reader(csvfile)
    for row in reader:
        names += [row[0]]
random.shuffle(names)
        
print()
input('''
      ascii arts for each name will now be generated. if you don\'t like the
      output for a particular name, say \'n\', at the prompt and a new font
      will be used until you find one you like. press any key to continue\n
      ''')

def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
    "Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
    # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
    args = [iter(iterable)] * n
    return itertools.zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)

howmany = int(input('howmany per page?\t'))
for i, name in enumerate(names):
    with open('decs/decs%d.txt'%(i//howmany), 'a+') as out:
        font = next(fonts)
        rendered = text2art(text=name, font=font)
        while input(font + '\n' + rendered + '\n(y/n)?\t') in ['n', 'N']:
            font = next(fonts)
            rendered = text2art(text=name, font=font)
        print(rendered + '\n', file=out)