print color strings?

[Fred L. Drake]

From: "Fred L. Drake" <fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us>


Gerrit Holl writes:
 > is there an easy way to print color strings in python?
 > 
 > A function like printcolor('brightyellow', 'red', 'spam'), that finds
 > out on what kind of terminal you are and prints it to stdout?

Gerrit,
  If you're doing this on Unix, take a look at the ncurses library;
there's a Python interface to that.  (I think Oliver Andrich did it;
searching DejaNews should find it fairly quickly since this keeps
coming up.)
  The standard curses module will be documented in the next release of 
the Library Reference.


  -Fred

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