<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mainly work on OS X, but thought I'd experiment with some Python code on XP. > The >problem is I can't seem to get these things to work at all. > >First of all, I'd like to use Greek letters in the command prompt window, so I >was going to >use unicode to do this. But in the command prompt, the unicode characters are >displaying >as strange looking characters. I tried installing the 'Bitstream Vera Sans >Mono' font in hopes >it had all the characters I needed but this didn't seem to work either. Is >the problem the font? >And if so, is there a certain font that has unicode '03B1', etc? Here's some >code I tried:
It's not the font. (OK, it's partially the font.) To display Greek characters to the console, your console session has to be set for a code page that includes Greek characters. >The next problem I'm having is I can't seem to color the text with ansi escape >sequences. I >added "device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys" to the bottom of the CONFIG.NT >file, and experimented with code like this: > >print chr(27) + "[36mTest" + chr(27) + "[0m" > >From what I found on-line, ascii character 27 seems to be the escape key I >need, but I can't >seem to get it to work. It just displays an arrow. CONFIG.NT only affects 16-bit programs running in the NTVDM (the Virtual DOS Machine). 32-bit console apps (which Python is) simply cannot use ANSI escape sequences. You have to use the Win32 APIs to do color. There are curses-like libraries available for Python. Or: http://www.effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
