I was wondering if anyone knows how to set the color of the text that shows up in the shell. I noticed the 'ls' uses a couple different colors when printing out information to the screen (on my Linux box), was wondering if I could take advantage of that in Python.
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it's a duplicate question and has been already answered by me here => stackoverflow.com/a/70599663/3057246Vinod Srivastav– Vinod Srivastav2022-01-18 08:42:33 +00:00Commented Jan 18, 2022 at 8:42
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Use Curses or ANSI escape sequences. Before you start spouting escape sequences, you should check that stdout is a tty. You can do this with sys.stdout.isatty(). Here's a function pulled from a project of mine that prints output in red or green, depending on the status, using ANSI escape sequences:
def hilite(string, status, bold):
attr = []
if status:
# green
attr.append('32')
else:
# red
attr.append('31')
if bold:
attr.append('1')
return '\x1b[%sm%s\x1b[0m' % (';'.join(attr), string)
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Nifle
+1 especially for
sys.stdout.isatty()
John La Rooy
It's also nice to have an override for the case that the output is not a tty, but you still want the colour - say you are just filtering lines with sed or grep
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
unbuffer can do that, so you're not stuck if there's no override.John La Rooy
@Ignacio, cool I wonder why debian doesn't have an unbuffer package :(
John La Rooy
found it - debian hides it in
expect-dev under the name expect_unbuffer |
I just described very popular library clint. Which has more features apart of coloring the output on terminal.
By the way it support MAC, Linux and Windows terminals.
Here is the example of using it:
Installing (in Ubuntu)
pip install clint
To add color to some string
colored.red('red string')
Example: Using for color output (django command style)
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from clint.textui import colored
class Command(BaseCommand):
args = ''
help = 'Starting my own django long process. Use ' + colored.red('<Ctrl>+c') + ' to break.'
def handle(self, *args, **options):
self.stdout.write('Starting the process (Use ' + colored.red('<Ctrl>+c') + ' to break)..')
# ... Rest of my command code ...
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All the major color codes are given at https://www.siafoo.net/snippet/88
answered Feb 24, 2010 at 22:49
Matthew Flaschen
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curses will allow you to use colors properly for the type of terminal that is being used.
answered Feb 24, 2010 at 22:50
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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have a look at http://www.pixelbeat.org/talks/python/ls.py
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This is so simple to do on a PC: Windows OS: Send the os a command to change the text: import os
os.system('color a') #green text
print 'I like green'
raw_input('do you?')
