For a CLI program, or any program with text output, many programmers have been challenged with displaying data in the terminal in a readable format.

Either you are making a script to display data from a database via the python module sqlalchemy, or you are displaying the results of a RESTful API call via the python module requests, you likely have a handful of arbitrary complex python data structures to display. These might be a set of lists, dicts, ints, datetimes, and other objects.

Follow this guide and lets code together a way to display this data in a way you can easily read from the terminal.

So recently, I discovered a project done by Michael Fogleman called Quadtree Art. It inspired me to try and code my own version of the project. This is what I will talk about in this article, how to implement your own Quadtree art program, just as I've done here: github.com/ribab/quadart

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