65 lines
1.7 KiB
Python
65 lines
1.7 KiB
Python
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# SOLUTION: Fancy Letters
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# by Benjamin Vermunicht
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#
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# Approach:
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# We'll first try to build a dictionary mapping each letter
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# in ascii-art to the real letter. Than we'll request a string
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# and translate it with our dictionary.
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#
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# A dictionary with how each character looks
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translation = {}
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# Function to split a ascii-art string in ascii-art letters
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# returns a list of srings, each string representing a letter
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def readCharacters(asciiString):
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characters = []
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# splits each line of the ascii-art, lines will be
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# iterated synchronously
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asciiLines = asciiString.split('\n')[:-1]
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thisChar = [''] * len(asciiLines)
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for i in range(0, len(asciiLines[0])):
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space = True
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for j in range(0, len(asciiLines)):
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# if all lines contain a space on the same index,
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# we detect a new letter
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if (asciiLines[j][i] != ' '):
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space = False
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thisChar[j] += asciiLines[j][i]
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if space:
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# if we detect a new letter, save the previou letter
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# to our output
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for j in range(0, len(asciiLines)):
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thisChar[j] = thisChar[j][:-1]
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# merge the characters of this character of each line
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# to one string with newlines
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characters.append('\n'.join(thisChar))
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thisChar = [''] * len(asciiLines)
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# save the last letter to the output
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characters.append('\n'.join(thisChar))
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return characters
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# Iterates all characters of a known string to build
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# a dictionary
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def buildDictionary(asciiString, knownString):
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i = 0
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for c in readCharacters(asciiString):
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translation[c] = knownString[i]
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i += 1
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# Translates an ascii-art string to regular text
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# using the dictionary created with buildDictionary()
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def translateString(asciiString):
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resultString = ''
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for c in readCharacters(asciiString):
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resultString += translation[c]
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return resultString
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