Bug#904443: RFP: python3-asciitree -- draw tree structures using (ASCII or Unicode) characters

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : python3-asciitree
  Version         : 0.3.3
  Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann <git@marcbrinkmann.de>
* URL             : git@github.com:mbr/asciitree.git
* Licence         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python 2/3
  Description     : draw tree structures using (ASCII or Unicode) characters

 This package contains functions to draw a tree structure,
 similar to the tree Debian package, from arbitrary nested
 Python data structures, with configurable layout, sets of
 characters (ASCII or various Unicode line drawing), etc.
 It includes predefined structure traversal methods for
 (optionally ordered) dictionaries but allows the user to
 write their own to traverse custom data structures.

This was recently very helpful at $dayjob, and it would be
good to have it in Debian, although I do not intend to maintain
it myself a coworker will surely (*wink*) since it probably
can be done on the clock.

The documentation included in the package itself is extremely
sparse; there’s a link to https://pythonhosted.org/asciitree/
(the contents of which I’d suggest including in the binary
package under /usr/share/doc/ somewhere), but I had to look
into the source to figure out how to best use it.