#!/usr/bin/python
# A script to print input horizontally
# by: whye, 2009.11.23-2009,11,25
#

import sys

# function to take string and print it horizontally
def hz_print(string, col = 0):                  # accept string
    if col > 0:
        while col not 0:
            for index in range(len(string)):
                print string[index] * col
                -=col # this is a big cluster fuck I just need to loop around through one index and multiply it by column then print blah
        for width in col:
            count = 0
            for index in range(len(string)):
                print string[0] * col
    else:
        for index in range(len(string)):    # use the length of the string to loop
            print string[index]             # print each index of the string


if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.exit('Usage: %s input' % sys.argv[0])
elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
    input, column = sys.argv[1:3]       # This has to deal with list slicing very sexy multi assignment
    column = int(column)
    hz_print(input, column)
    print sys.argv, 'in elif'
else:
    input = sys.argv[1]
    hz_print(input, 0)
    print sys.argv, 'in else'