Wow! What a treasure of information. >From the looks of it, I'm going to give colorama a try. It seems like it will do what I want to do, and, if I'm reading the documentation correctly, it will work cross platform. Ie: if I am in Linux, it will simply be ignored. And, it appears to interpret the ANSI codes (\033[xxxm) when it comes to Windows...
As an aside, I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I still have my Hercules graphics card and my AMBER monitor for my 286 machine. You know, the machine that has two full-height HDD with an MFM interface and provides a combined 20Mbyte of storage space! And of course a math co-processor... I no longer recall how many Kbytes of onboard memory I had, maybe 1024... :) Thank you so much for sharing your insights. Best, On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:40 PM boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:50 PM Chip Wachob <wach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello again, > > > > As always, this list has been very helpful, and thank you. > > > > So, I thought I was good to go until I attempted to run my code on a > > Windows 7 vintage machine this morning. The application is intended to > be > > run in the command window in Windows, from the terminal in Linux... > > > > In the code I had included the ANSI escape characters so I could invert > the > > text and change the color. Basically, I wanted to make the warning / > error > > messages stand out from the crowd. > > As I have been on a "curses" kick lately, I wonder if it would work > for you? Of course this means another module, but it is in the > standard lib on all non-Windows Python versions. For Windows I found > this thread on stackoverflow: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32417379/what-is-needed-for-curses-in-python-3-4-on-windows7 > > The checked answer gives a link to binaries for Windows, which seems > to support all Python versions through 3.7, including 2.7. > > Just a thought... > > -- > boB > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
