crawl-ponysay.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# (Advice: use IPython)

# Dependencies:
# sudo -H pip3 install plumbum art

from plumbum import cmd as c
from art import text2art
ponyList = (c.ponysay["+A"] | c.sed["s/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g;s/(.*)//g"] | c.grep["-v", "located"])().split()
font="basic"
tHeight, tWidth = map(int, c.stty["size"].run_tee()[1].split())
tHeight -= 10
print()
def chunk(l, n):
   """Yield successive n-sized chunks from l."""
   for i in range(0, len(l), n):
       yield l[i:i + n]
try:
    # Group (unique) pony names into chunks
    for ponyChunk in chunk(sorted(set(ponyList))[60:], 4):
        # Get text art from the pony names. Truncate it to the terminal width
        textart = [line[:tWidth] for line in text2art("   ".join(ponyChunk), font=font).split("\n")]
        remainingHeight = tHeight - textart.count("\n") - 1
        frameChunk = []
        for pony in ponyChunk:
            # Get the pony image ponysay
            image = c.ponysay("-oF", pony).split("\n")[:-1]
            # Remove the colors through sed, split lines, get the 3rd line, get its length and create
            # a string of spaces of the same length to be used as filler at the bottom of the image
            filler = (len((c.sed["s/\x1b\\[[0-9;]*m//g"] << image[3])()) - 1) * " "
            frameBottom = (remainingHeight - len(image)) * [filler]
            # For each pony image, add the filler at the bottom of the image
            frame = image + frameBottom
            frameChunk.append(frame)
        lineMatrix = zip(*frameChunk)
        print("\n".join(textart + ["".join(lineList) for lineList in lineMatrix]))
    import time; time.sleep(0.8)
except KeyboardInterrupt: pass
print(c.clear())