Re: Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Davy
OK, I (sort of) tried that. Used chr() to avoid issues of which editor and rant the following: import sys ESC = chr(27) DarkRed = ESC + "[31;2m" ResetColour = ESC + "[0m" print "Initial colour" sys.stdout.write(DarkRed) ; sys.stdout.flush() print "Is this dark red?" sys.stdout.write(ResetCo

Re: Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-29 Thread TouTaTis
"Bill Davy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > To make life easier for my users, I'd like to colour my prompt string > (as handed to raw_input()) a different colour to that produced by > print. I'm using Python 2.4.1 and IDLE 1.1.1 on Windows XP. Is it > possible, and if so,

Re: Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Davy
Thank you Nathan, but that does not quite address my question. I want to have code in Python so make_the_prompt_string(Red) make_print_output(Green) while True: s = raw_input("This prompt (which is really several lines long) will be in red: ") Foo(s) print "And the result is in Gree

Re: Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-28 Thread Nathan Pinno
Bill. The way is the click on view, then click script checker, or something like that. It will color code the text for you. Nathan "Bill Davy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To make life easier for my users, I'd like to colour my prompt string (as > ha

Python/IDLE - text in different colours

2005-06-28 Thread Bill Davy
To make life easier for my users, I'd like to colour my prompt string (as handed to raw_input()) a different colour to that produced by print. I'm using Python 2.4.1 and IDLE 1.1.1 on Windows XP. Is it possible, and if so, how? tia, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho