Changing IDLE's stdout color at runtime

[Ben Hutchings]

anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton Vredegoor) writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for something like:
> 
> def SetIdleStdoutColor(color):
> 	pass  # this function needs defining
> 
> print 'hello world'
> SetIdleStdoutColor('green') 
> print 'hello again'
> SetIdleStdoutColor('defaultcolor')
> 
> Has anybody got an idea how to do this?

You'd need to work out whether standard output is connected to a
terminal or terminal emulation; if so, what kind of terminal that is;
whether that terminal supports colour; and if so, what the appropriate
control codes are for changing the colour.  You *could* assume that
any terminal supports the ANSI escape codes for colour (ESC [30n, ESC
[31n, etc, if I remember correctly), but that would really annoy
anyone using a terminal that doesn't.

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