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Convenience functions for ANSI terminal colour sequences

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Mapping and function for adding ANSI terminal colour escape sequences to strings for colour highlighting of output.

Function colourise

Return a string enclosed in colour-on and colour-off ANSI sequences. colour names the desired ANSI colour. uncolour may be used to specify the colour-off colour; the default is 'normal'.

Function colourise_patterns

Colourise a string according to regular expressions. s: the string patterns: a sequence of patterns default_colour: if a string pattern has no colon, or starts with a colon, use this colour; default DEFAULT_HIGHLIGHT Each pattern may be: a string of the form "[colour]:regexp" a string containing no colon, taken to be a regexp a tuple of the form (colour, regexp) a regexp object Returns the string with ANSI colour escapes embedded.

Function make_pattern

Convert a pattern specification into a (colour, regexp) tuple. Each pattern may be: a string of the form "[colour]:regexp" a string containing no colon, taken to be a regexp a tuple of the form (colour, regexp) a regexp object

Function make_patterns

Convert an iterable of pattern specifications into a list if (colour, regexp) tuples. Each pattern may be: a string of the form "[colour]:regexp" a string containing no colon, taken to be a regexp a tuple of the form (colour, regexp) a regexp object

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