Comments on: Bring Colors to the Windows Console with Python

By: lmn

lmn — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:41:16 +0000

How do I get the current background color (if it’s not black)? Printing in colors resets background to black no matter what’s the current color (it can be e.g. grey).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:05:40 +0000

Great job with this code!

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:46:36 +0000

This is really elaborate.I find it extremely useful

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:43:34 +0000

Amazing! It works like a charm and it’s quite easy to tweak it for your own purposes.

Thanks for taking the time to write and share it.

By: Jonathan Hartley

Jonathan Hartley — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:07:21 +0000

On platforms other than Windows, colored terminal text has always been done by printing ANSI escape sequences. (eg. ‘/003[2m’ is bold, I think)

I have created a package which wraps stdout on Windows, to intercept these ANSI escape sequences and convert them into win32 calls, as described above.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama

This has the upshot of forming a unified cross-platform API for printing colored terminal text from Python. Plus, all existing ANSI code and libraries (eg. PyPI termcolor) will now work on Windows, once the application has called ‘colorama.init()’.

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:31:28 +0000

Works wonderfully! Thx for posting this

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:29:27 +0000

Ah, I see now that sys.stdout.flush() fixes this, as the test_color_console_py30.py shows …

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:45:13 +0000

This doesn’t work in Python 3 when printing without newline characers

print(‘abc’) #will work with colors
print(‘abd’,end=”) #will not work with colors

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:52:05 +0000

Very nice, does the job.

By: Travel Man

Travel Man — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:55:11 +0000

Those colorful code makes my work easier