stretch.py

import time
import sys



border = '+---------------------------------+'
sides  = '|                                 |'
stretching_msg = 'Is this haunted room actually stretching?'
imag_msg =       '    Or is it just your imagination?'
stretchrange = 20
sleeptime = 1

def p(msg):
    sys.stdout.write(msg)
    sys.stdout.flush()


messages = [
    'Ensuring hinges creak in doorless chambers.',
    'Ensuring strange sounds echo through the halls.',
    'Ensuring candlelights flicker...               ',
    'Also ensuring that the air is deathly still    ',
]

for msg in messages:
    p('{}\r'.format(msg))
    time.sleep(sleeptime*3)

print('Welcome, foolish mortals!                    ')
time.sleep(sleeptime*2)


print(border)
print(sides)
#for i in range(stretchrange):
    #print(sides)

p('{}\r'.format(border))

time.sleep(sleeptime)
for i in range(stretchrange):
    if i == int(stretchrange/3):
        addition = stretching_msg
    elif i == int(stretchrange/3)+1:
        addition = imag_msg
    else:
        addition = ''

    print('{}  {}'.format(sides, addition))
    p('{}\r'.format(border))
    time.sleep(sleeptime)

print(border)