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[Kotrin]

This is one of my more favorite challenges from RubyQuiz just because it's quasi useful and fun to do.

This week's quiz is to write a program that displays LCD style numbers at adjustable sizes.

The digits to be displayed will be passed as an argument to the program. Size should be controlled with the command-line option -s follow up by a positive integer. The default value for -s is 2.

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[Lord Wud]

This is in python, and I know I can make it alot tighter. I had to copy/paste more then once, and that is always a bad sign. Suggestions are welcome, but I'm not reading them until I try it again. It also showed me that I have no idea how to properly process command line options, I should look into that.

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import sys

def lcdtext(numbers2display,size):
  hor = "-" * size
  nhor = " " * size
  output = ""
  numbers2display = list(str(numbers2display))
#print any top -'s 
  for number in numbers2display:
    if number in "02356789":
      output = output + " " + hor + "  "
    else:
      output = output + " " + nhor + "  "
  output = output + "\n"
#print the first set of |'s
  for vert in range(1, size + 1):
    for number in numbers2display:
      if number in "045689":
        output = output + "|" + nhor
      else:
        output = output + " " + nhor
      if number in "01234789":
        output = output + "|"
      else:
        output = output + " "
      output = output + " "
    output = output + "\n"
  #print any middle -'s 
  for number in numbers2display:
    if number in "2345689":
      output = output + " " + hor + "  "
    else:
      output = output + " " + nhor + "  "
  output = output + "\n"
  #print the second set of |'s
  for vert in range(1, size + 1):
    for number in numbers2display:
      if number in "0268":
        output = output + "|" + nhor
      else:
        output = output + " " + nhor
      if number in "013456789":
        output = output + "|"
      else:
        output = output + " "
      output = output + " "
    output = output + "\n"
 #print any bottom -'s 
  for number in numbers2display:
    if number in "023568":
      output = output + " " + hor + "  "
    else:
      output = output + " " + nhor + "  "
  output = output + "\n"
  print output

	
def main():
  size = 2
#  lcdtext(numbers2display,size)
  args = sys.argv
  sizenext = False
  for arg in args:
    if arg == '-s':
      sizenext = True
    elif sizenext:
      size = int(arg)
      sizenext = False
    else:
      numbers2display = arg
  lcdtext(numbers2display,size)
if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

Edited by Lord Wud, 13 September 2010 - 12:21 PM.