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Ascii Typer

An ascii typer.
(Version [1.8][Now with Secret Mode])

KiKUP (42)

Very cool! I would work on cutting down the code since it's so long! Maybe a list would work?


Please enjoy "Ascii Typer" and [DON'T REPUBLISH FOR PROFIT]

MiloWebster (1)

I really like it, but I found an error. "test test" works fine, but "really long string" causes there to be a space between every line. No idea how that could happen but I'd imagine it'd be easy to fix.


I will be inserting a 'Secret'

amasad (2061)

I love it. It'd be cool if we can choose different styles


@amasad "I am working on a simple way to do that that doesn't require 3 weeks to 2 months to make."

ebest (618)

You know there's a module that does this?


@ebest It is a cool independent project for my first year in CS

ebest (618)

@AZRIELGIESWEIN This is your first year?

Ok then, a few suggestions:
#1: Use a dictionary. They might not be very useful now, but they'll become extremely important later.

#2: There's way too many if statements. #1 would fix this too.

#3: The input string can be .uppercase d. If you use so many if statements, at least to .uppercase!

#4: Check out the modules! Here's my program that does this. Use font "doh" and blue on red.


Steven_The_GuyT (213)

You know that someone could access the secret mode just by changing line 17 to

secret_mode = True

It's too easy...

ebest (618)


oh, there is a secret. It's just hard to find



Really! Just turn it into 1s and 0s

TacoCode (4)

Great ASCII typer, but...

You could improve the design to use a dictionary instead of manually doing if letter == "some letter":. This would improve code readness, complexity, and file size.
You can just do:

for letter in user:
        for i in len(letters[letter]()):
            output[i] += letters.get(letter)[i]
        print("Invalid caracter '{}'".format(letter))

Where the list letters is something like this:

letters = {
    "!" = ['  ||   ','  ||   ','  ||   ','  \/   ','       ','  []   '],

You can see an example of this here