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ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal.

Project description

Example

import sys
from termcolor import colored, cprint

text = colored('Hello, World!', 'red', attrs=['reverse', 'blink'])
print(text)
cprint('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red')

print_red_on_cyan = lambda x: cprint(x, 'red', 'on_cyan')
print_red_on_cyan('Hello, World!')
print_red_on_cyan('Hello, Universe!')

for i in range(10):
    cprint(i, 'magenta', end=' ')

cprint("Attention!", 'red', attrs=['bold'], file=sys.stderr)

Text Properties

Text colors:

  • grey

  • red

  • green

  • yellow

  • blue

  • magenta

  • cyan

  • white

Text highlights:

  • on_grey

  • on_red

  • on_green

  • on_yellow

  • on_blue

  • on_magenta

  • on_cyan

  • on_white

Attributes:

  • bold

  • dark

  • underline

  • blink

  • reverse

  • concealed

Terminal properties

Terminal

bold

dark

underline

blink

reverse

concealed

xterm

yes

no

yes

bold

yes

yes

linux

yes

yes

bold

yes

yes

no

rxvt

yes

no

yes

bold/black

yes

no

dtterm

yes

yes

yes

reverse

yes

yes

teraterm

reverse

no

yes

rev/red

yes

no

aixterm

normal

no

yes

no

yes

yes

PuTTY

color

no

yes

no

yes

no

Windows

no

no

no

no

yes

no

Cygwin SSH

yes

no

color

color

color

yes

Mac Terminal

yes

no

yes

yes

yes

yes

CHANGES

1.1.0 (13.01.2011)

  • Added cprint function.

1.0.1 (13.01.2011)

  • Updated README.rst.

1.0.0 (13.01.2011)

  • Changed license to MIT.

  • Updated copyright.

  • Refactored source code.

0.2 (07.09.2010)

  • Added support of Python 3.x.

0.1.2 (04.06.2009)

  • Fixed bold characters. (Thanks Tibor Fekete)

0.1.1 (05.03.2009)

  • Some refactoring.

  • Updated copyright.

  • Fixed reset colors.

  • Updated documentation.

0.1 (09.06.2008)

  • Initial release.

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