colorise 0.1.0

Easily print colored text to the console

Provides cross-platform text coloring for consoles, useful functions and a nestable color format syntax.

colorise has been tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3.

Installation:

You can install via pip:

pip install colorise

Alternatively, if you downloaded the source files, just run the following command from the download directory:

python setup.py install

Usage:

There are a number of ways to color the foreground- and background colors of the output to the console. You can find additional examples in the /examples folder.

You can directly set the color:

>>> import colorise
>>> colorise.set_color('purple')
>>> print("This text should be purple")
>>> colorise.set_color()
>>> print("All colors have been reset!")

You can just print some text in a predefined color

>>> colorise.cprint("Error: Expected a string, found int", fg='red', bg='darkgreen')

colorise has a special color format syntax that allows for nested expressions as well:

>>> colorise.fprint("<bg=cyan:This is cyan, <fg=red:now with red foreground> and <fg=yellow:now yellow>.>")

There are a few useful tools as well:

>>> colorise.formatcolor("Format me, please!", bg='darkred')
"<bg=darkred:Format me, please!>"
>>> colorise.formatbyindex("Format me as well!", fg='blue', indices=[4, 17, 3, 5, 10])
"For<fg=blue:mat> me <fg=blue:a>s well<fg=blue:!>"

colorise.highlight behaves like colorise.formatbyindex, but will write the output instead of returning a string:

>>> colorise.highlight("Highlight this text!", fg='blue', indices=[4, 17, 3, 5, 10])

Implementation notes

On Linux and Unix there are no ‘dark’ themed backgrounds, so calling

>>> colorise.cprint("Isn't this wrong?", bg='darkred')

will just set the background color to red. Also, ‘normal’ and ‘dark’ colors are either normal/bright colors, or normal/dark depending on the underlying platform, and may not necessarily appear as very dark.

Due to the many different termnial/console types, it is virtually impossible to correctly map color names to their actual colors. You may see variations (like ‘yellow’ showing up as brownish) or other discrepancies. colorise assumes the following available colors:

• Black

• Red

• Green

• Yellow

• Blue

• Magenta

• Cyan

• White

It is therefore best to stick to colors which are more likely to be present and correct, like ‘red’, ‘blue’ and ‘green’.