Modify output banners to have constant length and use dashes instead

of "-" to be less visually heavy (unless cowsay is installed of course)

bin/ansible-playbook

@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ def colorize(lead, num, color):
 def hostcolor(host, stats):
     if ANSIBLE_COLOR:
         if stats['failures'] != 0 or stats['unreachable'] != 0:
-            return "%-41s" % stringc(host, 'red')
+            return "%-37s" % stringc(host, 'red')
         elif stats['changed'] != 0:
-            return "%-41s" % stringc(host, 'yellow')
+            return "%-37s" % stringc(host, 'yellow')
         else:
-            return "%-41s" % stringc(host, 'green')
+            return "%-37s" % stringc(host, 'green')
-    return "%-30s" % host
+    return "%-26s" % host
 
 
 def main(args):
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def main(args):
             playbook_cb.on_stats(pb.stats)
             for h in hosts:
                 t = pb.stats.summarize(h)
-                print "%-30s : %s %s %s %s " % (
+                print "%s : %s %s %s %s" % (
                     hostcolor(h, t),
                     colorize('ok', t['ok'], 'green'),
                     colorize('changed', t['changed'], 'yellow'),

lib/ansible/callbacks.py

@@ -143,7 +143,11 @@ def banner(msg):
         (out, err) = cmd.communicate()
         return "%s\n" % out
     else:
-        return "\n%s ********************* " % msg
+        width = 78 - len(msg)
+        if width < 3:
+            width = 3 
+        filler = "-" * width
+        return "\n%s %s " % (msg, filler)
 
 def command_generic_msg(hostname, result, oneline, caption):
     ''' output the result of a command run '''