raia 0.2.0

Simplistic python package to print colored and/or styled text with a user friendly API.

Raia

Simplistic python package to print colored and/or styled text with a user friendly API.

1. Introduction

raia is a simplistic python package that intends to provide a user friendly API for printing formatted text on the terminal. To do so, raia uses ANSI RGB codes (as many similar packages do). Truecolor ANSI support of the running terminal is assumed.

2. Installation

Using pip,

pip install raia

3. Usage

raia formats text through Formatter objects. All Formatter objects have two ways to format text:

1. Used as a callable, i.e.

    form = raia.Formatter("""some initialization""")
    formatted_str = form ("raia Library")
    print(formatted_str)
   

2. Using the fprint method that uses the builting print with the chosen formatting, i.e.

   form = raia.Formatter("""some initialization""")
   form.fprint("raia Library")
   

Both of these have the same output (printed "raia Library" with the formatting specified in """some initialization""").

The Formatter object is initialized by a string of the ANSI escape code for the chosen formating, e.g. for printing red text we would initialize with:

Red = raia.Formatter("\x1b[38;2;255;0;0m")

To bereft the user of having anything to do with such codes, raia provides the Style, Color, FullStyle subclasses of the Formatter class. With them, the user just has to specify the necessary information (e.g. for Color the amounts of RGB, see example below).

4. example.py

Below, you can see the code and output of the script example.py.

import raia

# Info
print("Package name: "+raia.__name__)
print("Version: " + raia.__version__)

# Default colors
print(raia.Red("Default 'Red' as foreground."))
print(raia.Blue_bg("Default 'Blue' as background."))

# Custom color
myColor = raia.Color(0, 150, 150)
print(myColor("Custom foreground color."))

# Custom background
myBackground = raia.Color(255, 0, 150, as_background=True)
myBackground.fprint('This is a custom background color.')

# Default style
print(raia.Strikethrough('This is a default style.'))

# Custom style
myStyle = raia.Style('underline', 'italic', 'bold')
myStyle.fprint('This is a custom style.')

# Custom Full-Style
myFullStyle = raia.FullStyle(foreground=raia.Violet, background=(
    0, 80, 180),                           style=myStyle)
myFullStyle.fprint('This is a custom fully styled text.')

# Default keys
print(raia.Green('Default color keys: \n'), raia.defaults.keys())
print(raia.Brown_bg('Available styles keys:\n'), raia.styles.keys())

Output:

Important Note: Not all styles work on all consoles.