termcolor

Installation

From PyPI

python3 -m pip install --upgrade termcolor

From source

git clone https://github.com/termcolor/termcolor
cd termcolor
python3 -m pip install .

Demo

To see demo output, run:

python3 -m termcolor

Example

import sys

from termcolor import colored, cprint

text = colored("Hello, World!", "red", attrs=["reverse", "blink"])
print(text)
cprint("Hello, World!", "green", "on_red")

print_red_on_cyan = lambda x: cprint(x, "red", "on_cyan")
print_red_on_cyan("Hello, World!")
print_red_on_cyan("Hello, Universe!")

for i in range(10):
    cprint(i, "magenta", end=" ")

cprint("Attention!", "red", attrs=["bold"], file=sys.stderr)

# You can also specify 0-255 RGB ints via a tuple
cprint("Both foreground and background can use tuples", (100, 150, 250), (50, 60, 70))

Text properties

Text colors	Text highlights	Attributes
`black`	`on_black`	`bold`
`red`	`on_red`	`dark`
`green`	`on_green`	`italic`
`yellow`	`on_yellow`	`underline`
`blue`	`on_blue`	`blink`
`magenta`	`on_magenta`	`reverse`
`cyan`	`on_cyan`	`concealed`
`white`	`on_white`	`strike`
`light_grey`	`on_light_grey`
`dark_grey`	`on_dark_grey`
`light_red`	`on_light_red`
`light_green`	`on_light_green`
`light_yellow`	`on_light_yellow`
`light_blue`	`on_light_blue`
`light_magenta`	`on_light_magenta`
`light_cyan`	`on_light_cyan`

You can also use any arbitrary RGB color specified as a tuple of 0-255 integers, for example, (100, 150, 250).

Terminal properties

Terminal	bold	dark	italic	underline	blink	reverse	concealed
xterm	yes	no	yes	yes	bold	yes	yes
linux	yes	yes	color	bold	yes	yes	no
rxvt	yes	no	yes	yes	bold/black	yes	no
dtterm	yes	yes	?	yes	reverse	yes	yes
teraterm	reverse	no	?	yes	rev/red	yes	no
aixterm	normal	no	?	yes	no	yes	yes
PuTTY	color	no	no	yes	no	yes	no
Windows	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no
Cygwin SSH	yes	no	?	color	color	color	yes
Mac Terminal	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes

Overrides

Terminal colour detection can be disabled or enabled in several ways.

In order of precedence:

Calling colored or cprint with a truthy no_color disables colour.
Calling colored or cprint with a truthy force_color forces colour.
Setting the ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED environment variable to any non-empty value disables colour.
Setting the NO_COLOR environment variable to any non-empty value disables colour.
Setting the FORCE_COLOR environment variable to any non-empty value forces colour.
Setting the TERM environment variable to dumb, or using such a dumb terminal, disables colour.
Finally, termcolor will attempt to detect whether the terminal supports colour.

Release files for termcolor 3.3.0

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