ascii_art.py

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
import sys

ShowText = sys.argv[1]

font = ImageFont.truetype('arialbd.ttf', 15) #load the font
size = font.getsize(ShowText)  #calc the size of text in pixels
image = Image.new('1', size, 1)  #create a b/w image
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.text((0, 0), ShowText, font=font) #render the text to the bitmap

def mapBitToChar(im, col, row):
    if im.getpixel((col, row)): return ' '
    else: return '='

for r in range(size[1]):
    print(''.join([mapBitToChar(image, c, r) for c in range(size[0])]))

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