ANSI colored output: How to determine how python was called?

[François Pinard]

[Donn Cave]

> Quoth Pearu Peterson <pearu at cens.ioc.ee>:

> |   Are there alternative (hopefully better) ways to decide whether the
> |   output "device" of python stdout supports ANSI colored text or not?

> It might be nice to pull something else out of the environment too, for
> the sake of people who are missing the boat on TERM - maybe LS_COLORS,
> which is already used by GNU ls, or something specific to your application.

The normal way to check for colour terminal support is through terminal
info capabilities (terminfo).  Check for `op', 'AF', `AB', `Sf', `Sb',
'Co', `pa' and `NC' capabilities, in particular.  I forgot details as of
now, but remember I had to fight a bit to get everything right.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard