Styled Output

[Michael Bentley]

On Apr 21, 2007, at 3:21 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:

> Chaps,
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> Hope you’re all having a good weekend, I’m sure it’ll only be the  
> more ‘hard core’ of you reading this, anyone with any sanity would  
> be out in the sunshine right now.
>
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> I’m running a program of mine from Linux bash script and it  
> currently outputs status messages to the command prompt, but they  
> all look a little boring to say the least, it’ll be like this.
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> Application Started
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> Sucess
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> Application Configured
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> Failed
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> Retry
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> Application Configured
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> Success
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> What I’d ideally like to do it give it a little bit of format, so  
> it perhaps looks something like this.
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> Application  
> Started                                                                
>                                                           [Success]
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> Application  
> Configured                                                             
>                                                       [Success]
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> And perhaps have the word ‘success’ in green, or red for ‘failed’  
> and things like that, just to make it a little more presentable to  
> the user.
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> Any ideas on the best way to achieve this?
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He, he -- umm yeah (and who said all that time with THEDRAW as a kid  
would never pay off) ;-) Try this:

#! /usr/bin/env python

def statusMessage(msg, status, msgWidth=60):
     if status.lower() == 'success':
         status = '\033[32m[%s]\033[00m' % status
     elif status.lower() == 'failed':
         status = '\033[31m[%s]\033[00m' % status
     else:
         status = '\033[33m[%s]\033[00m' % status

     msg = msg + ' ' * (msgWidth - len(msg))
     print '%s%s' % (msg, status)

if __name__ == '__main__':
     statusMessage('Application Started', 'Success')
     statusMessage('Application Configured', 'Failed')
     statusMessage('', 'Retry')
     statusMessage('Application Configured', 'Success')