Display graphic cards next to each other in Python

Question

I am making a card game and I want to display the cards graphically with strings. However, with my current method that are placed underneath each other. How can I put them next to each other without messing up the visuals?

def display_card(card):
    
    suit = card[0]
    value = card[1]
    
    graphic_card = (
        '┌─────────┐\n'
        '│{}       │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│    {}   │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│       {}│\n'
        '└─────────┘'
    ).format(
        format(value, ' <2'),
        format(suit, ' <2'),
        format(value, ' >2')
    )

    print(graphic_card)
    
 
cards= ["♥2", "♥3", "♥4"]
for card in cards:
    display_card(card)

Answer 1

It's probably simpler if you change your method to just return a list of the lines for the cards, then you can zip those together and print them.

def get_card(card):
    suit = card[0]
    value = card[1:]  # 1: for '10'
    return (
        '┌─────────┐\n'
        '│{}       │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│    {}   │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│         │\n'
        '│       {}│\n'
        '└─────────┘'
    ).format(
        format(value, ' <2'),
        format(suit, ' <2'),
        format(value, ' >2')
    ).splitlines()

def display_cards(cards):
    for lines in zip(*map(get_card, cards)):
        print(*lines)
 
cards= ["♥2", "♥3", "♥4"]
display_cards(cards)