[Tutor] ANSI / VT100 Escape Codes in Windows 7 Environment

[Chip Wachob]

Wow!  What a treasure of information.

>From the looks of it, I'm going to give colorama a try.  It seems like it
will do what I want to do, and, if I'm reading the documentation correctly,
it will work cross platform.  Ie: if I am in Linux, it will simply be
ignored.  And, it appears to interpret the ANSI codes (\033[xxxm) when it
comes to Windows...

As an aside, I enjoyed the trip down memory lane.  I still have my Hercules
graphics card and my AMBER monitor for my 286 machine.  You know, the
machine that has two full-height HDD with an MFM interface and provides a
combined 20Mbyte of storage space! And of course a math co-processor...  I
no longer recall how many Kbytes of onboard memory I had, maybe 1024...   :)

Thank you so much for sharing your insights.

Best,


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:40 PM boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:50 PM Chip Wachob <wachobc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > As always, this list has been very helpful, and thank you.
> >
> > So, I thought I was good to go until I attempted to run my code on a
> > Windows 7 vintage machine this morning.  The application is intended to
> be
> > run in the command window in Windows, from the terminal in Linux...
> >
> > In the code I had included the ANSI escape characters so I could invert
> the
> > text and change the color.  Basically, I wanted to make the warning /
> error
> > messages stand out from the crowd.
>
> As I have been on a "curses" kick lately, I wonder if it would work
> for you?  Of course this means another module, but it is in the
> standard lib on all non-Windows Python versions.  For Windows I found
> this thread on stackoverflow:
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32417379/what-is-needed-for-curses-in-python-3-4-on-windows7
>
> The checked answer gives a link to binaries for Windows, which seems
> to support all Python versions through 3.7, including 2.7.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> --
> boB
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