How do I print bold text in Python

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How do I print bold text in Python   For example   print  hello    What should I do so that the text    hello    is displayed in bold

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This depends if you re using linux unix    gt  gt  gt  start     033 1m   gt  gt  gt  end     033 0 0m   gt  gt  gt  print  The    start    text    end     is bold   The text is bold    The word text should be bold

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Some terminals allow to print colored text  Some colors look like if they are  bold   Try   print    033 1 37mciao      The sequence   033 1 37m  makes some terminals to start printing in  bright white  that may look a bit like bolded white    033 0 0m  will turn it off

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print   033 1m  Your Name   033 0m     033 1m is the unicode for bold in the terminal  033 0m is the unicode for end the edited text and back default text formate       if you do not use  033 0m than all upcoming text of the terminal will become bold

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You can use termcolor for this    sudo pip install termcolor   To print a colored bold    from termcolor import colored  print colored  Hello    green   attrs   bold       For more information  see termcolor on PyPi   simple-colors is another  package with similar syntax    from simple colors import    print green  Hello     bold      The equivalent in colorama may be Style BRIGHT

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class color     PURPLE     033 95m     CYAN     033 96m     DARKCYAN     033 36m     BLUE     033 94m     GREEN     033 92m     YELLOW     033 93m     RED     033 91m     BOLD     033 1m     UNDERLINE     033 4m     END     033 0m   print color BOLD    Hello World      color END

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Install the termcolor module  sudo pip install termcolor   and then try this for colored text  from termcolor import colored print colored  Hello    green     or this for bold text   from termcolor import colored print colored  Hello   attrs   bold      In Python 3 you can alternatively use cprint as a drop-in replacement for the built-in print  with the optional second parameter for colors or the attrs parameter for bold  and other attributes such as underline  in addition to the normal named print arguments such as file or end   import sys from termcolor import cprint cprint  Hello    green   attrs   bold    file sys stderr       Full disclosure  this answer is heavily based on Olu Smith s answer   and was intended as an edit  which would have reduced the noise on this page   considerably but because of some reviewers  misguided concept of   what an edit is supposed to be  I am now forced to make this a separate answer

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There is a very useful module for formatting text  bold  underline  colors    in Python  It uses curses lib but it s very straight-forward to use   An example   from terminal import render print render    BG YELLOW s  RED s  BOLD sHey this is a test  NORMAL s   print render    BG GREEN s  RED s  UNDERLINE sAnother test  NORMAL s     UPDATED   I wrote a simple module named colors py to make this a little more pythonic   import colors  with colors pretty output colors BOLD  colors FG RED  as out      out write  This is a bold red text    with colors pretty output colors BG GREEN  as out      out write  This output have a green background but you                     colors BOLD   colors FG RED    can    colors END     mix styles

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Simple Boldness - Two Line Code  In python 3 you could use colorama - simple colors   Simple Colours page  https   pypi org project simple-colors  - go to the heading  Usage    Before you do what is below  make sure you pip install simple colours   from simple colors import   print green  hello    bold

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Assuming that you really mean  print  on a real printing terminal    gt  gt  gt  text    foo bar r noof trab r n   gt  gt  gt     join s if i  amp  1 else  s     b    len s     2   s             for i  s in enumerate re split r   s     text     foo x08 x08 x08foo x08 x08 x08foo bar x08 x08 x08bar x08 x08 x08bar r noof x08  x08 x08oof x08 x08 x08oof trab x08 x08 x08rab x08 x08 x08rab r n    Just send that to your stdout

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Use this   print   033 1m     Hello    And to change back to normal   print   033 0m    This page is a good reference for printing in colors and font-weights  Go to the section that says  Set graphics mode    And note this won t work on all operating systems but you don t need any modules

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In straight-up computer programming  there is no such thing as  printing bold text   Let s back up a bit and understand that your text is a string of bytes and bytes are just bundles of bits  To the computer  here s your  hello  text  in binary   0110100001100101011011000110110001101111   Each one or zero is a bit  Every eight bits is a byte  Every byte is  in a string like that in Python 2 x  one letter number punctuation item  called a character   So for example   01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 h        e        l        l        o   The computer translates those bits into letters  but in a traditional string  called an ASCII string   there is nothing to indicate bold text  In a Unicode string  which works a little differently  the computer can support international language characters  like Chinese ones  but again  there s nothing to say that some text is bold and some text is not  There s also no explicit font  text size  etc   In the case of printing HTML  you re still outputting a string  But the computer program reading that string  a web browser  is programmed to interpret text like this is  lt b gt bold lt  b gt  as  this is bold  when it converts your string of letters into pixels on the screen  If all text were WYSIWYG  the need for HTML itself would be mitigated -- you would just select text in your editor and bold it instead of typing out the HTML   Other programs use different systems -- a lot of answers explained a completely different system for printing bold text on terminals  I m glad you found out how to do what you want to do  but at some point  you ll want to understand how strings and memory work

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Check out colorama   It doesn t necessarily help with bolding    but you can do colorized output on both Windows and Linux  and control the brightness   from colorama import   init autoreset True  print Fore RED    some red text  print Style BRIGHT   Fore RED    some bright red text

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