scrmbl

Library and CLI for "scrambled" printing in terminal.

Have you ever wanted to print your text like some corny action movies?

note: the % are coming from my tty recorder

Requirements

• Tested on Python >= 3.5

Install

CLI

pip3 install --user scrmbl

Library

Using pip in a virtualenv.

pip install scrmbl

Using Poetry:

poetry add scrmbl

Using Pipenv:

pipenv install scrmbl

Usage

Refer to the gif to see the effect

CLI

Usage: scrmbl [OPTIONS] [MESSAGE]

  Scrmbl print the given message.

Options:
  -s, --speed FLOAT         Time in seconds between prints. Default: 0.05
  -i, --iterations INTEGER  Number of iterations per character. Default: 2
  -c, --charset FILE        Set of chars to scramble.
  --version                 Show the version and exit.
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Can also read from stdin.

ls -lrtha | scrmbl

Library

>>> import scrmbl

>>> scrmbl.echo('09:30pm, Washington, NSA HEADQUARTERS')
'09:30pm, Washington, NSA HEADQUARTERS'

# handle multiline
>>> scrmbl.echo('09:30pm, Washington\nNSA HEADQUARTERS')
'02:56am, New-York'
'FBI HEADQUARTERS'

# custom settings:
# charset = String of characters to scramble with
# speed = Time in seconds between prints
# iterations = number of iterations before printing the final character
>>> scrmbl.echo('NSA OFFICE', charset='ABCDefg/-', speed=0.2, iterations=6)
'CIA OFFICE'

Thanks

Special thanks for contributing:

• @podstava
• @0jdxt