Colour of output text

Fri Jul 10 05:23:54 EDT 2009

Tim Harig <usernet at ilthio.net> wrote:
> On 2009-07-09, Alex Rosslyn <black.linen99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to learn a way of changing the colour of a particular
>> part of the output text. I've tried the following

> On Unix operating systems this would be done through the curses interface:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/library/curses.html

Or using ANSI colour codes:

colours = {
            'none'       :    "",
            'default'    :    "\033[0m",
            'bold'       :    "\033[1m",
            'underline'  :    "\033[4m",
            'blink'      :    "\033[5m",
            'reverse'    :    "\033[7m",
            'concealed'  :    "\033[8m",

            'black'      :    "\033[30m",
            'red'        :    "\033[31m",
            'green'      :    "\033[32m",
            'yellow'     :    "\033[33m",
            'blue'       :    "\033[34m",
            'magenta'    :    "\033[35m",
            'cyan'       :    "\033[36m",
            'white'      :    "\033[37m",

            'on_black'   :    "\033[40m",
            'on_red'     :    "\033[41m",
            'on_green'   :    "\033[42m",
            'on_yellow'  :    "\033[43m",
            'on_blue'    :    "\033[44m",
            'on_magenta' :    "\033[45m",
            'on_cyan'    :    "\033[46m",
            'on_white'   :    "\033[47m",

            'beep'       :    "\007",

            # non-standard attributes, supported by some terminals 
            'dark'         :    "\033[2m",
            'italic'       :    "\033[3m",
            'rapidblink'   :    "\033[6m",
            'strikethrough':    "\033[9m",
            }

print colours['red'], 'this is red', colours['blue'], 'blue', colours['on_green'], 'and with a green background', colours['default']

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