Breaking string into multiple lines according to character width (python)

Question

I am drawing text atop a base image via PIL. One of the requirements is for it to overflow to the next line(s) if the combined width of all characters exceeds the w

Answer 1

Since you know the width of each character, you should make that into a dictionary, from which you get the widths to calculate the stringwidth:

char_widths = {
    'a': 9,
    'b': 11,
    'c': 13,
    # ...and so on
}

From here you can lookup each letter and use that sum to check your width:

current_width = sum([char_widths[letter] for letter in word])