How to change colors of console window?

[Cousin Stanley]

|| w98 console is annoying in other ways too, IIRC. I.e., you
|| have to load doskey to get line recall, and then that doesn't
|| get inherited when you run python in the console interactively?

Bengt ...

I'm using doskey and find it very useful
and on this Win98 system it does NOT inherit into Python,
which  IS  a problem ...

As a result, I do little testing directly in interactive mode
but make changes in a text editor and then run ...

doskey does make switching back and forth
between ... edit ... and ... python ... very easy
after typing the lines the fist time ...

I have managed to switch the DOS colors easily
using ANSI Escape sequences with the ANSI.SYS driver,
but I'm curious as how to do it with DOS/Win configurations ...

Cousin Stanley