Colour of output text

[Nobody]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:23:54 +0000, garabik-news-2005-05 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",

[snip]

>             # non-standard attributes, supported by some terminals 

This comment should have appeared immediately after "none" ;)

Hard-coding control/escape sequences is just lame. Use the curses modules
to obtain the correct sequences for the terminal.