[Tutor] Print to std output with color

[Alan Gauld]

"Karim" <karim.liateni at free.fr> wrote

> Is there a simple way to print with color to stdout like the 
> unix/linux
> example below:
>
> *print( '^[[1;31mThis is a warning!^[[0m' )

Not generically since stdout is a data stream which may not be
printed (it could be spoken for example - how does the synthesiser
interpret colour?) and the terminal may have a colour scheme that
makes your output invisible!

Also different terminals have different capabilities, many do
not support colour but do support bold/italic/underline etc.
Thats why curses exists, it does a best endeavours attempt
at rendering what you want but reverts to defaults for cases
where it is not supported. but even curses is not able to work
with all terminals - for example line oriented terminals/teletypes.

> *I see thing with curses module. But is there an more simple object 
> in
> other module to do the trick?
> Kind of _/decorate_output( mode=WARNING, *'This is a warning!')*/_

There are some attempts at providing easier terminal control
functions. The effbot did one I seem to recall....

http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm

That might suffice for you?


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Alan Gauld
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