Coloring print lines

[Sami Viitanen]

Hello,

Is there an easy way to make script print text with differents colors to
screen (shell)?

I mean a script that can for example print lines in red if some error occurs
in executing
some information..

--SV

----Thanks in advance.

[Sybren Stuvel]

Sami Viitanen enlightened us with:

Is there an easy way to make script print text with differents colors to
screen (shell)?
Sure, just use ANSI codes.
I mean a script that can for example print lines in red if some
error occurs in executing some information..

Example:

print "\033[31;1mError:\033[0m some message"

Sybren
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[Risto Peränen]

Sami Viitanen wrote:

Hello,

Is there an easy way to make script print text with differents colors to
screen (shell)?

I mean a script that can for example print lines in red if some error occurs
in executing
some information..

--SV

----Thanks in advance.

If you're using python at X, best advice I canv give is Text-widget at
Tkinter and RTFM (sorry couldn't resist temptation :) . Otherwise you
probably have to fiddle with curses-library (unix-only).

Best way to gather information of execution is to open log-file, code
couple of monkeys and let them crack system as much as possible. This is
only my opinion. Coders are blind to their mistakes even at testing.

[Michael Peuser]

"Risto Peränen" <[e-mail]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Sami Viitanen wrote:

Hello,

Is there an easy way to make script print text with differents colors to
screen (shell)?

.... If you're using python at X, best advice I canv give is Text-widget at
Tkinter and RTFM (sorry couldn't resist temptation :) . Otherwise you
probably have to fiddle with curses-library (unix-only).

Some month's ago Adam Vandenberg released some alpha curses for Windows

http://flangy.com/dev/python/curses/

I worked with my Win2000 but is only a partial implementation. It has some
color support that migth suffice for the request of the OP.

Kindly
Michael P

[Cousin Stanley]

| Is there an easy way to make script print text
| with different colors to screen (shell)?
| ...

Sami ...

I have a couple of small examples for printing
colorized strings via Ansi escape sequences
from Python under Windows ...

http://fastq.com/~sckitching/Python/ansi_strings.zip

--
Cousin Stanley
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

[Fernando Perez]

Sami Viitanen wrote:

Hello,

Is there an easy way to make script print text with differents colors to
screen (shell)?

I mean a script that can for example print lines in red if some error occurs
in executing
some information..

IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org) supports coloring for its own purposes, and
comes with a module for this. You can simply import this module and use it for
your programs. Besides, you may like ipython itself ;)

Cheers,

f.