#!/usr/bin/env python3 # This data is meant to be read-only, so we are storing it in a tuple DATA = (2,21,14,14,25, 1,2,-1,0,2,45,50,-1,0,5,43,52,-1,0,7,41,52,-1, 1,9,37,50,-1,2,11,36,50,-1,3,13,34,49,-1,4,14,32,48,-1, 5,15,31,47,-1,6,16,30,45,-1,7,17,29,44,-1,8,19,28,43,-1, 9,20,27,41,-1,10,21,26,40,-1,11,22,25,38,-1,12,22,24,36,-1, 13,34,-1,14,33,-1,15,31,-1,17,29,-1,18,27,-1, 19,26,-1,16,28,-1,13,30,-1,11,31,-1,10,32,-1, 8,33,-1,7,34,-1,6,13,16,34,-1,5,12,16,35,-1, 4,12,16,35,-1,3,12,15,35,-1,2,35,-1,1,35,-1, 2,34,-1,3,34,-1,4,33,-1,6,33,-1,10,32,34,34,-1, 14,17,19,25,28,31,35,35,-1,15,19,23,30,36,36,-1, 14,18,21,21,24,30,37,37,-1,13,18,23,29,33,38,-1, 12,29,31,33,-1,11,13,17,17,19,19,22,22,24,31,-1, 10,11,17,18,22,22,24,24,29,29,-1, 22,23,26,29,-1,27,29,-1,28,29,-1,4096) def display_intro(): print(tab(33) + "BUNNY") print(tab(15) + "CREATIVE COMPUTING MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY") print("\n\n") def tab(column): """ Emulates the TAB command in BASIC. Returns a string with ASCII codes for setting the cursor to the specified column. """ return "\r\33[{}C".format(column) def play(): display_intro() # Using an iterator will give us a similar interface to BASIC's READ # command. Instead of READ, we will call 'next(data)' to fetch the next element. data = iter(DATA) # Read the first 5 numbers. These correspond to letters of the alphabet. # B=2, U=21, N=14, N=14, Y=25 # Usually, list comprehensions are good for transforming each element in a sequence. # In this case, we are using range to repeat the call to next(data) 5 times. The underscore (_) # indicates that the values from range are discarded. bunny = [next(data) for _ in range(5)] L = 64 # Interpretting a stream of data is a very common software task. We've already intepretted # the first 5 numbers as letters of the alphabet (with A being 1). Now, we are going to # combine this with a different interpretation of the following data to draw on the screen. # The drawing data is essentially a series of horizontal line segments given as begin and end # offsets. while True: command = next(data) if command < 0: print() continue if command > 128: break # If we've reached this portion of the code, 'command' indicates the 'start' # position of a line segment. start = command # Position cursor at start print(tab(start), end="") # The following number, indicates the end of the segment. end = next(data) # Unlike FOR I=X TO Y, the 'stop' argument of 'range' is non-inclusive, so we must add 1 for i in range(start, end+1, 1): # Cycle through the letters in "BUNNY" as we draw line j = i - 5 * int(i / 5) print(chr(L + bunny[j]), end="") if __name__ == "__main__": play()