ansiscape

ansiscape is a Python package and CLI tool for creating and interpreting ANSI escape codes.

• Support for named, 8-bit and 24-bit colours.
• Create formatted strings with nested sequences and property reversions.
• Convert embedded escape codes into explanatory dictionaries.
• Write sequences as fully resolved strings and explanatory JSON.

Full documentation is published at ansiscape.readthedocs.io.

Installation

ansiscape requires Python 3.8 or later.

pip install ansiscape

Basic CLI usage

ansiscape on the command line will read from stdin and emit a JSON document describing the text and its escape codes.

For example:

ls --color | ansiscape

[{"background": -1, "foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"ansiscape",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"ansiscape.egg-info",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 2, "weight": 1},"build.sh",{"background": -1},"\ncoverage.xml\n",{"foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"dist",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"docs",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"htmlcov",{"background": -1},"\nLICENSE\n",{"foreground": 2, "weight": 1},"lint.sh",{"background": -1},"\nMANIFEST.in\nmkdocs.yml\nmypy.ini\nPipfile\nPipfile.lock\npyproject.toml\nREADME.md\nsetup.py\n",{"foreground": 2, "weight": 1},"test-cli.sh",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 4, "weight": 1},"tests",{"background": -1},"\n",{"foreground": 2, "weight": 1},"test.sh",{"background": -1}]

Full documentation is published at ansiscape.readthedocs.io.

Basic Python usage

ansiscape provides a library of functions for formatting text.

For example, to make text bold:

from ansiscape import heavy

print(heavy("Hello, world!"))

Hello, world!

These functions can be nested to create complex formatted strings. Specific instructions can also be embedded:

from ansiscape import Interpretation, Sequence, heavy
from ansiscape.enums import MetaInterpretation, Weight

sequence = Sequence(
    Interpretation(weight=Weight.HEAVY),
    "Hello, world!",
    Interpretation(weight=MetaInterpretation.REVERT),
)

print(sequence)

Hello, world!

Full documentation is published at ansiscape.readthedocs.io.

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