Right spinner: Adds an option to place the spinner on the right side of the text

[stephen-bunn]

Description of new feature, or changes

Adds a flag that places the spinner to the right of the text.

with Halo(text='Spinning...', right=True) as spinner:
    # stuff...

Spinning... ⠧

Also affects the stop_and_persist methods.

Checklist

• Your branch is up-to-date with the base branch
• You've included at least one test if this is a new feature
• All tests are passing

Related Issues and Discussions

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[manrajgrover]

@stephen-bunn Hi, I'm not sure if I would like to include this feature. Any particular reason or use case where this would be needed?

[stephen-bunn]

Feel free to close the pull request if you don't think it should be a feature.

One of the reasons I choose not to use halo is the missing functionality to place the spinner on the right side of the text. I simply opened a pull request instead of an issue because it seemed trivial to implement.

[manrajgrover]

@stephen-bunn It won't be as trivial as it sounds because we support ellipses for long texts. If someone uses that feature with this option, it would give undesirable results. Hence, I would love to know your use case for this feature since I cannot think of any.

[stephen-bunn]

Ah I see, there is no real use case for having the spinner on the right side of the text. It is just a style choice I would like to have.

Feel free to close.

[manrajgrover]

@stephen-bunn Looks like others are also interested in this feature. Are you still willing to take this one up? Let me know and I'll review. One change I would want is renaming the right keyword to placement and making it a string with default left. I'll review the code if you're willing to continue. Thanks for working on this and apologies for the delay.

[stephen-bunn]

@manrajgrover sure thing, I've opened a new PR since the repo for this one has been removed.
Now the text values left and right are accepted by a parameter called placement.

Closing this PR due to revisions in #57.