Print full ascii art

Question

I am trying to print ascii art like this:

print(("""\

                                       ._ o o
                                       \_`-)|_
                                    ,""       \ 
                                  ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                                ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                              ,"       /     `--._;)
                            ,"     ## /
                          ,"   ##    /


                    """).encode('utf-8'))

And the output does not look right at all.

What is the proper method of printing ascii art?

Use PyPi's python ASCII art - link here. (Don't have enough reputation to comment unless replying.) — monkey, Dec 09 '19 at 18:50

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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encode takes a string and encodes it into bytes. That's not what you want here; you want to just print the string directly:

print("""\

                                       ._ o o
                                       \_`-)|_
                                    ,""       \ 
                                  ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                                ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                              ,"       /     `--._;)
                            ,"     ## /
                          ,"   ##    /


                    """)

If this doesn't work, your terminal is most likely not configured to display Unicode. Unfortunately, I am not particularly knowledgeable about terminal configuration; Why doesn't my terminal output unicode characters properly? may be relevant, but my ability to help is mostly limited to the Python side of things.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered May 13 '14 at 05:20

user2357112

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@frostnational: [I've tried it, and it seems to work just fine.](http://ideone.com/umTQle) – user2357112 May 13 '14 at 05:22
I get "...codec can't encode character '\u0ca0' in position..." – user3476998 May 13 '14 at 05:25
@frostnational Not corrupted, it's just your IDE is unable to print these characters. Conclusion, you can't use them for an ascii art! – aIKid May 13 '14 at 06:10

score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 07 '18 at 02:09

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print(r"""\

                                   ._ o o
                                   \_`-)|_
                                ,""       \ 
                              ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                            ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                          ,"       /     `--._;)
                        ,"     ## /
                      ,"   ##    /


                """)

The r allows you to print raw text better especially when there is a lot of inverted commas in the picture that you are trying to print.

edited Mar 07 '18 at 02:09

Stephen Rauch

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answered Mar 07 '18 at 01:50

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I recommend this to be the accepted answer. – Lutz Büch Jun 28 '21 at 09:55

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '19 at 10:10

print(r"""\

                               ._ o o
                               \_`-)|_
                            ,""       \ 
                          ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                        ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                      ,"       /     `--._;)
                    ,"     ## /
                  ,"   ##    /


            """)
print(r"""\

                               ._ o o
                               \_`-)|_
                            ,""       \ 
                          ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                        ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                      ,"       /     `--._;)
                    ,"     ## /
                  ,"   ##    /


            """)

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 13 '14 at 20:37

I get "...codec can't encode character '\u0ca0' in position..."

If print(giraffe) fails due to an incorrect character encoding then try to set PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable correctly e.g., in bash:

$ PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python3 -c 'from text_art import giraffe as s; print(s)'

Do not use print(giraffe.encode('utf-8')):

print() function expects a text, not bytes (unrelated: to print bytes, you could use sys.stdout.buffer.write(some_bytes))
how bytes are interpreted as a text is the property of your terminal, you shouldn't hardcode its settings in your code. PYTHONIOENCODING allows you to change the encoding if necessary

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

No need to add `''.encode('utf-8')`

I print ASCCII art all the time using Python 3.6.7 on Ubuntu machines

__header__ = '''Content-Type: application/xml

\033[92m        .---------------------------------.
\033[92m        |  .---------------------------.  |
\033[92m        |[]|\033[94m         __   __   *       \033[92m|[]|
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m        /  | /  | /        \033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m       (___|(___|(         \033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m       |   )|    |         \033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m       |  / |    |         \033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m /              |         |\033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m(  ___  ___  ___| ___  ___|\033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m| |   )|   )|   )|___)|   )\033[92m|  |
\033[92m        |  |\033[94m| |__/ |__/||__/ |__  |__/ \033[92m|  |
..And more

THEN

print(__header__)

And the result

jacob · Answer 6 · 2021-08-25T03:17:13.543

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print(r"""\

                               ._ o o
                               \_`-)|_
                            ,""       \ 
                          ,"  ## |   ಠ ಠ. 
                        ," ##   ,-\__    `.
                      ,"       /     `--._;)
                    ,"     ## /
                  ,"   ##    /


            """)

this will type or print this in raw text

edited Aug 25 '21 at 03:17

answered Jun 21 '21 at 11:05

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 16:48

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to solve this issue I just added the header '# coding=utf-8' at the top level of the file and it works. Code

Result of the script

answered Sep 07 '22 at 16:48

Luis Noe Raygoza C.

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Please include your code in the answer and don't post links to images of code. – MagnusO_O Sep 12 '22 at 17:21

Print full ascii art

7 Answers7

No need to add ''.encode('utf-8')

And the result

No need to add `''.encode('utf-8')`