skbio.tree.TreeNode.ascii_art¶

TreeNode.ascii_art(show_internal=True, compact=False)[source]¶

Returns a string containing an ascii drawing of the tree

Note, this method calls a private recursive function and is not safe for large trees.

Parameters:	show_internal : bool includes internal edge names compact : bool use exactly one line per tip
Returns:	str an ASCII formatted version of the tree

Examples

>>> from six import StringIO
>>> from skbio import TreeNode
>>> tree = TreeNode.read(StringIO("((a,b)c,(d,e)f)root;"))
>>> print(tree.ascii_art())
                    /-a
          /c-------|
         |          \-b
-root----|
         |          /-d
          \f-------|
                    \-e