Nobody wrote:
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.
FYI
http://github.com/jbowes/markymark/blob/59511b36a752b40243cc18fb0fb9800c74549ac1/markymark.py
If the URL ever becomes invalid, then google for markymark.py
You can use it either to color your Linux/Unix terms, or you can just
look at the python code to see how to set colors and attributes.
JM
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