Hello, I actually wanted/looked for colored output in the CLI for quite a while myself, and finally found the solution! The magic?: "echo -e". The syntax is a little odd to use it, and I don't think I can explain it very succinctly. It may be best to see an example of it in action. I wrote a bash script to summarize files, and I used the "echo -e" syntax to color the output.
Actual code: http://launchpod.homelinux.com:81/trac/code/browser/userextensions/summarizer.sh Details here, with screenshots: http://assistedsilicon.blogspot.com/2007/04/summary-execution.html Good luck! -Sam _____________________________________ ----- Original Message ---- From: Tiago Saboga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: tutor@python.org Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:11:35 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] linux terminal coloring in python On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:32:37AM -0700, Robert Jackson wrote: > I'm trying to get some pretty colored output for a Linux console / terminal window. Google searches only reveal the curses module to colorize output. > Is there a simpler way? Curses seems to be FAR too powerful for what it is I want to do (simply to colorize a few 'print' outputs to the console). I have looked for that last week and the best I could find was ColorANSI module, distributed with ipython (in a debian system, it's /usr/share/python-support/ipython/IPython/ColorANSI.py). I just bookmarked it, and don't know how to make it work. But it seems quite simple. Tiago. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
