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Python module to style terminal output, moving and positioning the cursor.

Project description

Python module to style terminal output, moving and positioning the cursor.

Python 2 and 3 compatible

Installation

Install through pip.

$ pip install py-term

or get from source

$ git clone https://github.com/gravmatt/py-term.git
$ cd py-term
$ python setup.py install

Import module

Import the module into your python project.

import term

Usage

term.write('Hello, ')
term.write('Python!')

> Hello, Python!

term.writeLine('Hello')
term.writeLine('Python!')

> Hello
> Python!

Style output

The first argument is the text output and all following arguments are for styling.

term.writeLine(text, *style)

Or

text = term.format(text, *style)
term.writeLine(text)

Usage

term.writeLine('Hello, Python!')

term.writeLine('This text line will be green', term.green)

term.writeLine('Reverse the green color', term.green, term.reverse)

Or

ouput = term.format('Hello, ', term.green) + term.format('Python!', term.blue, term.bold)

term.writeLine(output)

term.write(term.format('All in one line', term.reverse))

Text align

Center align

# term.center(text)

term.writeLine(term.center('Super Python!'))

Right align

# term.right(text)

term.writeLine(term.right('Rene Tanczos (@gravmatt)'))
Style attributes

Code

Description

term.off

All attributes off

term.bold

Bold

term.dim

Dim

term.underscore

Underscore (monochrome display only)

term.blink

Blink

term.reverse

Reverse

term.hide

Hide

Text color

Code

Color

term.black

Black

term.red

Red

term.green

Green

term.yellow

Yellow

term.blue

Blue

term.magenta

Magenta

term.cyan

Cyan

term.white

White

Background color

Code

Color

term.bgblack

Black

term.bgred

Red

term.bggreen

Green

term.bgyellow

Yellow

term.bgblue

Blue

term.bgMagenta

Magenta

term.bgcyan

Cyan

term.bgwhite

White

Remove style attributes

Removes style characters.

(Good to call before you count a string)

term.strip(formatted_text)

hello = term.red + 'hello, world' + term.off
print hello
# '\x1b[31mhello, world\x1b[0m\x1b[27m'

print term.strip(hello)
# hello, world

Highlighting text

Simple highlighting of unformatted text strings

def callback(matching_text):
  return term.blue + matching_text + term.off

output, match_count, array_of_positions = term.highlight(regex_pattern, text, callback)

Return a tuple.

output (index 0) = formatted text output

match_count (index 1) = match count of the pattern

array_of_positions (index 2) = array of tuples with start and stop points of the matches [(4, 6), (9, 11), ..]

Cursor position

Move the cursor to a specific position.

term.pos(line, column)

term.pos(2, 15)

Get the size of the terminal (lines and columns)

(30, 100) = term.getSize()

# (lines, colums) = term.getSize()

Move the cursor to the home position (1, 1).

term.homePos()

Moves the current cursor position up, down, left or right by the specified value.

term.up(value=1)
term.down(value=1)
term.left(value=1)
term.right(value=1)

Saves the current cursor position.

term.saveCursor()

Restore the previously stored cursor position.

term.restoreCursor()

Clear the terminal screen.

term.clear()

Clear the entire line on the current cursor position.

term.clearLine()

Clear line from the current cursor position to the end.

term.clearLineFromPos()

Clear line from begin to current cursor position.

term.clearLineToPos()

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015-2016 René Tanczos

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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