monty.string module

Useful additional string functions.

monty.string.boxed(msg, ch=’=’, pad=5)

Returns a string in a box

• Parameters
  • msg – Input string.
  • ch – Character used to form the box.
  • pad – Number of characters ch added before and after msg.

>>> print(boxed("hello", ch="*", pad=2))
***********
** hello **
***********

monty.string.indent(lines, amount, ch=’ ‘)

Indent the lines in a string by padding each one with proper number of pad characters

monty.string.is_string(s)

True if s behaves like a string (duck typing test).

monty.string.list_strings(arg)

Always return a list of strings, given a string or list of strings as input.

• Examples

>>> list_strings('A single string')
['A single string']

>>> list_strings(['A single string in a list'])
['A single string in a list']

>>> list_strings(['A','list','of','strings'])
['A', 'list', 'of', 'strings']

monty.string.make_banner(s, width=78, mark=’*’)

• Parameters
  • s – String
  • width – Width of banner. Defaults to 78.
  • mark – The mark used to create the banner.
• Returns Banner string.

monty.string.marquee(text=’’, width=78, mark=’*’)

Return the input string centered in a ‘marquee’.

• Parameters
  • text (str) – Input string
  • width (int) – Width of final output string.
  • mark (str) – Character used to fill string.
• Examples

>>> marquee('A test', width=40)
'**************** A test ****************'

>>> marquee('A test', width=40, mark='-')
'---------------- A test ----------------'

marquee(‘A test’,40, ‘ ‘) ‘ A test ‘

monty.string.remove_non_ascii(s)

Remove non-ascii characters in a file. Needed when support for non-ASCII is not available.

• Parameters s (str) – Input string
• Returns String with all non-ascii characters removed.

monty.string.unicode2str(s)

Forces a unicode to a string in Python 2, but transparently handles Python 3.

• Parameters s (str/unicode) – Input string / unicode.
• Returns str in Python 2. Unchanged otherwise.