colorclass 1.0.2

Unicode class with automatic (light/dark background) terminal colors support.

Yet another ANSI color text library for Python. Provides “auto colors” for dark/light terminals.

In Python2.x this library subclasses unicode, while on Python3.x it subclasses str. colorclass is supported on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4.

Windows support effortlessly provided with the help of colorama. I didn’t have to change anything! Though only dark colors seem to work.

Quickstart

Install:

pip install colorclass

Example Implementation

Source code for the example code is: example.py

Usage

Different colors are chosen using curly-bracket tags, such as {red}{/red}. For a list of available colors, call colorclass.list_tags().

The available “auto colors” tags are:

• autoblack

• autored

• autogreen

• autoyellow

• autoblue

• automagenta

• autocyan

• autowhite

Methods of Class instances try to return sane data, such as:

from colorclass import Color
color_string = Color('{red}Test{/red}')

color_string
u'\x1b[31mTest\x1b[39m'

len(color_string)
4

color_string.istitle()
True

There are also a couple of helper attributes for all Color instances:

color_string.value_colors
'\x1b[31mTest\x1b[39m'

color_string.value_no_colors
'Test'

Changelog

1.0.2

• Added ability to disable/strip out all colors.

1.0.1

• Fixed splitlines() method.

1.0.0

• Initial release.