Python Animated ASCII Art Tutorial

A great beginner's tutorial on how to add animated ASCII art to your Python programs.

[elbowed]

import os, time
os.system('cls') # linus - 'clear'
filenames = ["example.txt", "example.txt"]


def animator(filenames, delay = 1, repeat = 10):
frames = []
for name in filenames:
with open (name, "r", encoding="utf8") as f:
frames.append(f.readlines())
for i in range(repeat):
for frame in frames:
print("".join(frame))
time.sleep(delay)
os.system('cls')

animator(filename, delay = 0.1, repeat = 5)


yall welcome

[quill]

is there a way to have cleaner transition between the frames? I'm having a flickering effect frames are changing (upward motion)

[HardikGhoshal]

Awesome tutorial. Only request: make a tutorial on how to add these animations to a terminal program. I mean running other terminal program in parallel while updating frames in the animation. A lot of terminal applications do support some kind or animation/splash loading screen. The bottom part of the screen is where the main program executes and in the upper part the animation shows up ( could also be opposite).

[fredtchiadeu]

hello, thanks for the video. Please what if we want to stop the animation when the user push a button?

[Sam-qigw]

can't find any good animated ascii art!

[migueln]

what characters did you use for the Pac-Man? I'm totally down for creating my own, but I've never seen characters like that before.

[joem]

is there a way I can do this on Mac or is it the same for everything beside the 'clear'

[MNMnick]

got this shit to work111 LETS GOO!! need it for my project lol

[farmakoxeris]

Hello from Greece, I have a question. What is the size of the console? I remember that in DOS days we had 25 rows of 80 characters.

[davidn]

I don't know if this will get seen but I am wondering if this can be done without using files. I would like to send my game to friends but I don't know how to install files onto their computer and also I don't want to. If I could do this by alternating print statements with triple quotes that would be awesome.

[Pie-qgxw]

Edit: Fixed it
Code doesn't work:
The code
import time
import os

filenames["1.txt", "2.txt"]
frames = []
for name in filenames:
with open(name, "r", encoding="utf8") as f:


for frame in frames:
print("".join(frame))
time.sleep(0.5)
os.system("cls")


maybe it's because my terminal app isn't very good and I'm using note pad to type it out

[dixienormus]

I keep geting No such file or directory even though the file exists. ANYBODY PLASE HELP

[walter]

how can i change the color of the text please ?