cobra-color 1.3.12

A lightweight, easy-to-use Python library for enhanced terminal output, combining string-friendly color styling with one-step ANSI image rendering.

🎨 cobra-color 🎨
_{Turn a Plain Terminal into an Expressive Visual Canvas}

About

cobra-color is a lightweight, easy-to-use Python library for enhanced terminal output, combining string-friendly color styling with one-step ANSI image rendering.

• Python: 3.9+

Features

• 🚀 Strong compatibility with native Python strings: Keep familiar str workflows while preserving color/style through operations like concatenation and transformations.
• 🚀 Full terminal rendering toolkit: Supports both styled text output and image-to-ANSI conversion across multiple modes (such as ascii, half-color, and gray).
• 🚀 Lightweight and developer-friendly: Minimal core dependencies, optional render extras, and safe_print support for tqdm/rich-friendly console output.

Installation

Install from PyPI

This installs the core package with minimal dependencies.

pip install cobra-color

Install with Optional Dependencies

cobra.render module support.

pip install cobra-color[render]

Quick Start

• Render a text in the terminal:

  from cobra_color import cstr, safe_print
  
  c_text_1 = cstr("Hello World!", fg="r", styles=["bold"])
  # Print directly from the terminal
  print(c_text_1)
  
  c_text_2 = cstr("Hello World!", fg=(255, 255, 255), styles=["udl", "bold"])
  # Alternatively, you can use safe_print() to automatically support progress bar modes like tqdm and rich.
  safe_print(c_text_2)
  
  # Merge `c_text_1` and `c_text_2` while preserving their colors and style formatting.
  c_text_3 = c_text_1 + c_text_2
  
  # You can continue to use str's proprietary functions and keep the existing colors and styles.
  c_text_1.upper()
  

• Render an image in the terminal:

  from cobra_color.render import imgfile_to_ansi, safe_print
  
  # ASCII art
  safe_print(imgfile_to_ansi("example.jpg", width=80, mode="ascii"))
  
  # Half-block color (recommended for truecolor terminals)
  imgfile_to_ansi("example.jpg", width=80, mode="half-color", display=True)
  

• Render some text with fonts in the terminal:

  from cobra_color.draw import fonttext_to_ansi, FontName, safe_print
  
  # Borderless grayscale font
  safe_print(fonttext_to_ansi(
      "Hello World!",
      font=FontName.LLDISCO,
      mode="half-gray",
      trim_border=True
  ))
  

Image Modes

• ascii: monochrome ASCII using a density charset.
• color: colorized character fill.
• half-color: half-block characters with color (higher density, good visual quality).
• gray: grayscale characters.
• half-gray: half-block grayscale.

Tip: For best results, use a TrueColor-capable terminal and a monospaced font.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.9
• (Optional) Pillow >= 9.0, < 11.0
• (Optional) NumPy >= 1.21, < 2.0

License

See LICENSE in the repository.

Links

• Homepage/Repo
• Issues