Comments on: Bring Colors to the Windows Console with Python http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/ AndrĂ© Burgaud’s Blog Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Hartley http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Jonathan Hartley Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:07:21 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-538 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()'. 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 http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Andre Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:31:28 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-537 Works wonderfully! Thx for posting this :) Works wonderfully! Thx for posting this :)

]]> By: Andre http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Andre Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:29:27 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-536 Ah, I see now that sys.stdout.flush() fixes this, as the test_color_console_py30.py shows ... Ah, I see now that sys.stdout.flush() fixes this, as the test_color_console_py30.py shows …

]]> By: Andre http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Andre Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:45:13 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-535 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 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 http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Sergio Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:52:05 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-527 Very nice, does the job. Very nice, does the job.

]]> By: Travel Man http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Travel Man Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:55:11 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-475 Those colorful code makes my work easier Those colorful code makes my work easier

]]> By: Stu http://www.burgaud.com/bring-colors-to-the-windows-console-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Stu Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:22:52 +0000 http://www.burgaud.com/?p=149#comment-416 You can load and save palettes too... would be nice to be able to do this in python - C source here: http://home.comcast.net/~derelict/console_attr.html My ctypes-fu was not enough to do it myself though. You can load and save palettes too… would be nice to be able to do this in python – C source here:
http://home.comcast.net/~derelict/console_attr.html

My ctypes-fu was not enough to do it myself though.

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