Plotsy

ASCII plotting module for python

Files:

• plotsy.py - the actual module
• plotsy_color.py - colors
• plotsy_example.py - an example
• init.py - for using this as a library

Documentation

See the example and the documentation comments in plotsy.py

Example Plot

This is a black and white output of plotsy_example.py. It might be a bit confusing. Please inspect the script anyway. It's quite simple ;)

example 1: Print Chaos
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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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|                            |
|   +–––––––––––+            |
|   |HELLO WORLD|            |
|   +–––––––––––+            |
|                            |
|                            |
|                            |
|                            |
|                            |
| supported colors:          |
| fffffffffffffffff          |
| bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb    max=15|
|––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
|   1311. .                  |
|  1.1..   12                |
| 1. .     .    11           |
|1.         10 1.            |
|.          .99. 9           |
|  x         ..  .           |
|                 77         |
|                 ..6x       |
|                   .5x      |
|                    . x @   |
| x             @     33x    |
|        @            .. x   |
|   @                   1 x  |
|x                      .0000|
–––––––––––––––––––––––––....–

example 2: Plot a sqrt function
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^sqrt(x)                                                                                                                                                           x
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|xxx  12.0    25.0    37.0    49.0    61.0    74.0    86.0    98.0    111.0   123.0   135.0   148.0   160.0   172.0   184.0   197.0   209.0   221.0   234.0   246.0x
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Contribute

If you find a bug or can make a small change to make the module better, please fork this repo and commit your idea!

License

MIT