What is this?

I like banner comments in my code. Modern IDE's have fancier ways of doing this like code collapsing and such. And, Python style guides generally prohibit this style of commenting. But, I like to see the big test while scrolling (or, in subl).

Example

Running this:

from banner_comment import *
banner_comment("hello")

Prints:

###############################################################################
#                             _          _ _                                  #
#                            | |__   ___| | | ___                             #
#                            | '_ \ / _ \ | |/ _ \                            #
#                            | | | |  __/ | | (_) |                           #
#                            |_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/                            #
#                                                                             #
###############################################################################

Installation

This (one function) package just wraps figlet. You need to install figlet first. It exists on lots of package managers. E.g.

brew install figlet    # for OSX
apt-get install figlet # for ubuntu

After installing figlet, do

pip install banner_comment