termcolorxcore 0.1.1

Colorful, styled terminal output with ASCII banners and emoji support

🎨 termcolorx

termcolorx is a lightweight, dependency-free Python library for stylish terminal output - with full support for colors, text styles, emoji icons, and ASCII banners/boxes.
It’s designed for developers who want readable, expressive CLI applications that pop with color and energy 💥

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🚀 Features

• ✅ ANSI color support on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• 💡 Automatically enables VT Processing on Windows
• 🔤 Text styles: bold, italic, underline, blink, reverse, dim, hidden
• 🧱 ASCII art helpers (box and banner styles)
• 💬 Semantic printing helpers: success(), warning(), error(), info()
• 🎭 Emoji support in all messages
• 🧪 Simple API - no dependencies, no setup
• 💻 Works with any standard Python console or terminal emulator

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📦 Installation

You can install it directly from source or package it into a local module:

pip install termcolorxcore

Or if you’re developing locally:

git clone https://github.com/Luka12-dev/termcolorx.git
cd termcolorx
python setup.py install

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⚙️ Basic Usage

from termcolorxcore import colored, success, warning, error, info

print(colored("Hello world!", color="cyan", styles=["bold", "underline"]))
success("Operation completed successfully!")
warning("Low disk space detected.")
error("Failed to connect to server.")
info("System update available.")

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🌈 Advanced Examples

• 🧠 Custom color and emoji

from termcolorxcore import custom

custom("User added successfully!", color="bright_green", emoji="🟢")
custom("Custom message", color=95, styles=["bold", "underline"], emoji="✨")

🧱 ASCII box and banner

from termcolorxcore import success, error

success("Installation Complete", ascii=True)
error("Fatal Error: Missing Dependency", ascii="banner")

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Output example:

+------------------------+
| Installation Complete  |
+------------------------+

OR

FATAL ERROR: MISSING DEPENDENCY
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🎯 Input Helpers

• Colored prompts

from termcolorxcore import input_colored, confirm

name = input_colored("Enter your name: ", color="cyan", styles=["bold"])
confirmed = confirm("Are you sure?", default=True)

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Confirmation dialog

• Returns True for y, yes, 1, true

• Returns False for n, no, 0, false

• Returns the default if input is empty

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🧩 Function Reference

Function Description

• colored(text, color, styles, emoji) Returns a styled string
• success(msg, ...) Prints green success message
• warning(msg, ...) Prints yellow warning message
• error(msg, ...) Prints red error message
• info(msg, ...) Prints blue info message
• custom(msg, color, styles, emoji, ...) Fully customizable print helper
• input_colored(prompt, color, styles, emoji) Colored input prompt
• confirm(prompt, default, ...) Yes/no confirmation input
• asciiize(text, style) ASCII box/banner rendering
• example_palette() Returns a string showing all colors
• supports_color() Checks if the terminal supports ANSI colors

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🎨 Example Palette

from termcolorxcore import example_palette
print(example_palette())

Output:

black  red  green  yellow  blue  magenta  cyan  white  
bright_red  bright_green  bright_yellow  bright_blue  bright_magenta  bright_cyan  bright_white

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🧠 Notes

• Colors and styles are combined via ANSI escape sequences.

• On Windows, VT codes are automatically enabled via ctypes.

• If your terminal does not support color, the library falls back gracefully to plain text.

📄 License

MIT License © 2025 Luka Free to use, modify, and distribute with attribution.

💪 Motivation

CLI tools don’t have to be boring. With termcolorx, you can make every log, warning, and success message feel alive. Color isn’t just decoration - it’s clarity, confidence, and communication. 🔥