On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:37 -0700, Robert Dailey wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to print text in Python 3.1 with colors in a
> portable way? In other words, I should be able to do something like
> this:
>
> print_color( "This is my text", COLOR_BLUE )
>
> And this should be portable (i.e. it should work on Linux, Mac,
> Windows).
The way that terminals (and emulators) handle colour is fundamentally
different from the DOS/Windows console. If you want something which will
work on both, you will have write separate implementations for terminals
and the DOS/Windows console.
For terminals, you can use the "curses" package, e.g.:
import curses
curses.setupterm()
setaf = curses.tigetstr('setaf')
setab = curses.tigetstr('setab')
def foreground(num):
if setaf:
sys.stdout.write(curses.tparm(setaf, num))
def background(num):
if setab:
sys.stdout.write(curses.tparm(setab, num))
For the Windows console, you'll need to use ctypes to interface to the
SetConsoleTextAttribute() function from Kernel32.dll.
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