On 3/4/2008 12:05 PM, Michael Goerz wrote: > Thynnus wrote, on 03/04/2008 08:48 AM: >> On 3/3/2008 9:57 PM, Michael Goerz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to print out text in color. As far as I know, curses is the >>> only way to do that (or not?). So, what I ultimately want is a curses >>> terminal that behaves as closely as possible as a normal terminal, >>> i.e. it breaks lines and scrolls automatically, so that I can >>> implement a function myprint(color, text) that does what print() does, >>> only in color. >> >> You might find the below helpful. Let us know how you make out? >> >> -------- >> >> Python Cookbook >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/475116 >> >> Title: >> Using terminfo for portable color output & cursor control >> >> Description: >> The curses module defines several functions (based on terminfo) that can >> be used to perform lightweight cursor control & output formatting >> (color, bold, etc). These can be used without invoking curses mode >> (curses.initwin) or using any of the more heavy-weight curses >> functionality. This recipe defines a TerminalController class, which can >> make portable output formatting very simple. Formatting modes that are >> not supported by the terminal are simply omitted. >> >> -------- >> > > That looks *extremely* interesting. From a very brief test, it seems to > do exactly what I want! > > Now, Windows seems very problematic for color output. I was using the > following as a test, based on the above recipe: > > term = TerminalController() > while True: > print term.render('${YELLOW}Warning:${NORMAL}'), 'paper is crinkled' > print term.render('${RED}Error:${NORMAL}'), 'paper is ripped' > > On Linux, it works fine, on Windows, it just prints white on black > (which is of course what it should do if the terminal doesn't support > color). Can anyone get the Windows cmd.exe terminal to do color? I > already tried to add device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys to config.nt, > but that doesn't seem to do anything (neither in what I tried yesterday > with the ANSI escape codes, nor with the recipe code now). I also very > briefly tried running it on the winbash shell > (http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/), it didn't have any color either... > So, any way to get color in Windows? > > Michael
ipython - http://ipython.scipy.org/ - does a colored Windows interpreter, clue there. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
