[Q] Printing color strings on stdout without using escape sequences ?

[Walter Dörwald]

Ivan DUTKA-MALEN wrote:

> Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>> You might want to take a look at ANSIStyle:
>> http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/ansistyle/
>>
>> HTH,
>>   Walter Dörwald
>>
>>
> 
> Yes this package does exactly what I want. Moreover, it is very simple 
> to use.


Thanks!


> But it doesn't work on 'old' version of Python (I mean 1.5.2). I tried 
> to make some change in the source code (not too dificult to understand) 
> but I've stopped on some internal Python functions (PyObject_DEL or 
> PyUnicode_check) I think they're only valid in recent release of Python. 
> I must say that I've never made any C extension to Python


The simplest solution would be to upgrade to a newer version
of Python. I'm not planning to maintain a 1.5.2 compatible version of
ANSIStyle. In fact in the near future ANSIStyle might be ported to Python2.2
and use new style classes.


> Do you think it would be a challenge to make it work on version 1.5.2 ?


I have a patch that makes it work with Python 1.5.2. Unfortunately your
emails bounce (dutka at edf.fr: User unknown) and I don't want to send the 
patch
to the newsgroup. Give me a valid email address and I'll send you the patch.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald