Learning Python for Forensics

FIGlet

FIGlet, and its python extension pyfiglet (version 0.7.4), is a great and simple way of generating ASCII art. All we need to do is supply FIGlet with a string of our choice and a font style, which dictates the design of our text. We will use this module to print the title of our framework at the beginning of the program execution to give it some personality.

To use FIGlet, we need to create a FIGlet object and specify the type of font we would like to use. We then call the object's renderText method along with the string to style. A full list of fonts can be found at http://www.figlet.org/examples.html.

>>> from pyfiglet import Figlet
>>> f = Figlet(font='banner')
>>> print f.renderText('Forensics')
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