skbio.tree.TreeNode.ascii_art¶

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

Returns a string containing an ascii drawing of the tree

State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.

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

an ASCII formatted version of the tree

Return type

str

Examples

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