Playing with ANSI colors and python with Couleur

Last night I've just released the first version of Couleur, which is (or at least try to be) a simple and awesome tool for using ANSI colors with python.

Couleur indeed turns very easy to handle shell colors in python.

In action

1 import time
2 import couleur
3 
4 sh = couleur.Shell(linebreak=True)
5 for mood in ["bad", "awful", "normal", "nice", "awesome"]:
6   sh.red_on_black(mood, replace=True)
7   time.sleep(1)

Couleur creates colored output dinamically, so that you can mix colors and modifiers at will:

1 import couleur
2 sh = couleur.Shell(linebreak=True)
3 sh.bold_black_and_bold_yellow_on_red("Gray | Yellow")

And even use "static" output, let's simulate the output of a "git clone":

 1 import time
 2 import couleur
 3 
 4 sh = couleur.Shell(linebreak=True)
 5 for x in range(101):
 6   if x is 0:
 7     print
 8   sh.normal_and_bold_green(
 9     "Counting objects: |%d%%" % x,
10     replace=True
11   )
12   time.sleep(0.08)

Installation

1 user@machine:~$ sudo pip install couleur

Full Documentation

Available here

Contributing

Fork me on github, write tests, write code, make it pass, send a pull request :)

Published: April 19 2010

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