> > I'm running a program of mine from Linux bash script and it currently > > outputs status messages to the command prompt, but they all look a little > > boring to say the least, it'll be like this. > > [snip] > > > And perhaps have the word 'success' in green, or red for 'failed' and > things > > like that, just to make it a little more presentable to the user.
Something like this might also help on linux: def blue( text ): print '\033[1m' + text + '\033[0m' blue( 'this will be blue' ) See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html HTH, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list