convert multiple columns vertical text to horizontal

Question

I tried these, but its only for one column. using notepad++ and python. Any solution that can do for multiple columns of text?

# Input:
tim
oso
d n
a d
y a
  y

# Output:
today 
is 
monday

Answer 1

You can do this fairly easily with a loop, something like:

s = "tim\noso\nd n\na d\ny a\n  y"
bits = s.split('\n')
lines = ['' for i in range(0, len(bits[0]))]
for bit in bits:
  for i in range(0, len(bit)):
    if bit[i] != ' ':
      lines[i] += bit[i]
'\n'.join(lines)