error/warning color customization in interactive console?

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On Jan 15, 5:44 pm, yhvh <yhvh2... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to output error messages in a different color?
> I'm using Terminal on Gnome.

For the few times that I want to do this, this simple form works with
xterm.
for j in range(1,10):
   os.system("tput setaf "+str(j))
   print "test for ", j