From f2fc21755bfb2be7c46a7326d8bc20a8e967d8bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "star:Kenneth Reitz" <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:03:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] COLUMNS!

---
 clint/textui/columns.py | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 141 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 clint/textui/columns.py

diff --git a/clint/textui/columns.py b/clint/textui/columns.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84e544c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clint/textui/columns.py
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+clint.textui.columns
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Core TextUI functionality for column formatting.
+
+"""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from .formatters import max_width, min_width
+from ..utils import tsplit
+
+import sys
+
+
+NEWLINES = ('\n', '\r', '\r\n')
+
+
+
+def _find_unix_console_width():
+    import termios, fcntl, struct, sys
+
+    # fcntl.ioctl will fail if stdout is not a tty
+    if not sys.stdout.isatty():
+        return None
+
+    s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0)
+    fd_stdout = sys.stdout.fileno()
+    size = fcntl.ioctl(fd_stdout, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, s)
+    height, width = struct.unpack("HHHH", size)[:2]
+    return width
+
+
+def _find_windows_console_width():
+    # http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440694/
+    from ctypes import windll, create_string_buffer
+    STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR = -10, -11, -12
+
+    h = windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STDERR)
+    csbi = create_string_buffer(22)
+    res = windll.kernel32.GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(h, csbi)
+
+    if res:
+        import struct
+        (bufx, bufy, curx, cury, wattr,
+         left, top, right, bottom,
+         maxx, maxy) = struct.unpack("hhhhHhhhhhh", csbi.raw)
+        sizex = right - left + 1
+        sizey = bottom - top + 1
+        return sizex
+
+
+def console_width(kwargs):
+    """"Determine console_width."""
+
+    if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
+        console_width = _find_windows_console_width()
+    else:
+        console_width = _find_unix_console_width()
+
+    _width = kwargs.get('width', None)
+    if _width:
+        console_width = _width
+    else:
+        if not console_width:
+            console_width = 80
+
+    return console_width
+
+
+
+def columns(*cols, **kwargs):
+
+    columns = list(cols)
+
+    cwidth = console_width(kwargs)
+
+    _big_col = None
+    _total_cols = 0
+
+
+    for i, (string, width) in enumerate(cols):
+
+        if width is not None:
+            _total_cols += (width + 1)
+            cols[i][0] = max_width(string, width).split('\n')
+        else:
+            _big_col = i
+
+    if _big_col:
+        cols[_big_col][1] = (cwidth - _total_cols) - len(cols)
+        cols[_big_col][0] = max_width(cols[_big_col][0], cols[_big_col][1]).split('\n')
+
+    height = len(max([c[0] for c in cols], key=len))
+    
+    for i, (strings, width) in enumerate(cols):
+
+        for _ in range(height - len(strings)):
+            cols[i][0].append('')
+
+        for j, string in enumerate(strings):
+            cols[i][0][j] = min_width(string, width)
+
+    stack =  [c[0] for c in cols]
+    _out = []
+
+    for i in range(height):
+        _row = ''
+
+        for col in stack:
+            _row += col[i]
+            _row += ' '
+
+        _out.append(_row)
+#            try:
+#                pass
+#            except:
+#                pass
+
+
+
+
+    return '\n'.join(_out)
+
+
+#        string = max_width(string, width)
+#        string = min_width(string, width)
+#        pass
+#        columns.append()
+
+
+
+###########################
+
+a = 'this is text that goes into a small column\n cool?'
+b = 'this is other text\nothertext\nothertext'
+
+#columns((a, 10), (b, 20), (b, None))