How to print colored text to the terminal

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How can I output colored text to the terminal in Python

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Emoji

You can use colors for text as others mentioned in their answers to have colorful text with a background or foreground color.

But you can use emojis instead! for example, you can use?? for warning messages and for error messages.

Or simply use these notebooks as a color:

: error message
: warning message
: ok status message
: action message
: canceled status message
: Or anything you like and want to recognize immediately by color

Bonus:

This method also helps you to quickly scan and find logs directly in the source code.

_{But some operating systems (including some Linux distributions in some version with some window managers) default emoji font is not colorful by default and you may want to make them colorful, first.}

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Rich is a relatively new Python library for working with color in the terminal  There are a few ways of working with color in Rich  The quickest way to get started would be the rich print method which renders a BBCode-like syntax in to ANSI control codes  from rich import print print  quot  red Color    in the  bold magenta Terminal     quot    There are other ways of applying color with Rich  regex  syntax  and related formatting features

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Use pyfancy  It is a simple way to do color in the terminal  Example  print pyfancy RED    quot Hello Red quot    pyfancy END

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On Windows you can use module  win32console   available in some Python distributions  or module  ctypes   Python 2 5 and up  to access the Win32 API   To see complete code that supports both ways  see the color console reporting code from Testoob   ctypes example   import ctypes    Constants from the Windows API STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 FOREGROUND RED      0x0004   text color contains red   def get csbi attributes handle         Based on IPython s winconsole py  written by Alexander Belchenko     import struct     csbi   ctypes create string buffer 22      res   ctypes windll kernel32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo handle  csbi      assert res       bufx  bufy  curx  cury  wattr      left  top  right  bottom  maxx  maxy    struct unpack  hhhhHhhhhhh   csbi raw      return wattr   handle   ctypes windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE  reset   get csbi attributes handle   ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  FOREGROUND RED  print  Cherry on top  ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  reset

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print  quot  033 1 32 40m Bright Green   n quot

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Note how well the with keyword mixes with modifiers like these that need to be reset  using Python 3 and Colorama   from colorama import Fore  Style import sys  class Highlight    def   init   self  clazz  color       self color   color     self clazz   clazz   def   enter   self       print self color  end  quot  quot     def   exit   self  type  value  traceback       if self clazz    Fore        print Fore RESET  end  quot  quot       else        assert self clazz    Style       print Style RESET ALL  end  quot  quot       sys stdout flush    with Highlight Fore  Fore GREEN     print  quot this is highlighted quot   print  quot this is not quot

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Yet another PyPI module that wraps the Python  3 print function  https   pypi python org pypi colorprint It s usable in Python 2 x if you also from   future   import print  Here is a Python  2 example from the modules PyPI page  from   future   import print function from colorprint import    print  Hello    world   color  blue   end     sep       print      color  red   format   bold    blink     It outputs  quot Hello  world  quot  with the words in blue and the exclamation mark bold red and blinking

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There is also the Python termcolor module  Usage is pretty simple  from termcolor import colored  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green    Or in Python 3  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green     It may not be sophisticated enough  however  for game programming and the  quot colored blocks quot  that you want to do

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If you are using Windows  then here you go    Display text on a Windows console   Windows XP with Python 2 7 or Python amp nbsp 3 2 from ctypes import windll    Needed for Python2 Python3 diff try      input   raw input except      pass STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 stdout handle   windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE    Look at the output and select the color you want    For instance  hex E is yellow on black    Hex 1E is yellow on blue    Hex 2E is yellow on green and so on  for color in range 0  75        windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute stdout handle  color       print  quot  X -- gt   s quot     color   quot Have a fine day  quot         input  quot Press Enter to go on      quot

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This is  in my opinion  the easiest method  As long as you have the RGB values of the color you want  this should work  def colored r  g  b  text       return  quot  033 38 2         m    033 38 2 255 255 255m quot  format r  g  b  text   An example of printing red text  text    Hello  World   colored text   colored 255  0  0  text  print colored text    or  print colored 255  0  0   Hello  World       Multi-colored text text   colored 255  0  0   Hello       colored 0  255  0   World   print text

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Define a string that starts a color and a string that ends the color  Then print your text with the start string at the front and the end string at the end  CRED     033 91m  CEND     033 0m  print CRED    quot Error  does not compute  quot    CEND   This produces the following in Bash  in urxvt with a Zenburn-style color scheme   Through experimentation  we can get more colors   Note   33 5m and  33 6m are blinking  This way we can create a full color collection  CEND          33 0m  CBOLD         33 1m  CITALIC       33 3m  CURL          33 4m  CBLINK        33 5m  CBLINK2       33 6m  CSELECTED     33 7m   CBLACK      33 30m  CRED        33 31m  CGREEN      33 32m  CYELLOW     33 33m  CBLUE       33 34m  CVIOLET     33 35m  CBEIGE      33 36m  CWHITE      33 37m   CBLACKBG      33 40m  CREDBG        33 41m  CGREENBG      33 42m  CYELLOWBG     33 43m  CBLUEBG       33 44m  CVIOLETBG     33 45m  CBEIGEBG      33 46m  CWHITEBG      33 47m   CGREY        33 90m  CRED2        33 91m  CGREEN2      33 92m  CYELLOW2     33 93m  CBLUE2       33 94m  CVIOLET2     33 95m  CBEIGE2      33 96m  CWHITE2      33 97m   CGREYBG        33 100m  CREDBG2        33 101m  CGREENBG2      33 102m  CYELLOWBG2     33 103m  CBLUEBG2       33 104m  CVIOLETBG2     33 105m  CBEIGEBG2      33 106m  CWHITEBG2      33 107m   Here is the code to generate the test  x   0 for i in range 24     colors    quot  quot    for j in range 5       code   str x j      colors   colors    quot  33  quot    code    quot m  33  quot    code    quot m 033 0m  quot    print colors    x   x   5

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The simplest way I can find is not to use ANSI escape codes  but use Fore from import module colorama  Take a look at the code below   from colorama import Fore  Style  print Fore MAGENTA    IZZ MAGENTA BRUH     print Style RESET ALL    IZZ BACK TO NORMALZ      compared to the ANSI escape code   print   u001b 31m IZZ RED  NO MAGENTA ON ANSI CODES   u001b 0m    print  BACK TO NORMALZ

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Try this simple code def prRed prt   print  quot  033 91m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prGreen prt   print  quot  033 92m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prYellow prt   print  quot  033 93m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prLightPurple prt   print  quot  033 94m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prPurple prt   print  quot  033 95m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prCyan prt   print  quot  033 96m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prLightGray prt   print  quot  033 97m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prBlack prt   print  quot  033 98m    033 00m quot   format prt    prGreen  quot Hello  World  quot

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For the characters  Your terminal most probably uses Unicode  typically UTF-8 encoded  characters  so it s only a matter of the appropriate font selection to see your favorite character  Unicode char U 2588   Full block  is the one I would suggest you use   Try the following   import unicodedata fp  open  character list    w   for index in xrange 65536       char  unichr index      try  its name  unicodedata name char      except ValueError  its name   N A      fp write   05d  04x  s  s n     index  index  char encode  UTF-8    its name  fp close     Examine the file later with your favourite viewer   For the colors  curses is the module you want to use  Check this tutorial

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This somewhat depends on what platform you are on  The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences  For a simple example  here s some Python code from the Blender build scripts  class bcolors      HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKCYAN     033 96m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD     033 1m      UNDERLINE     033 4m   To use code like this  you can do something like  print bcolors WARNING    quot Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  quot    bcolors ENDC   Or  with Python 3 6   print f quot  bcolors WARNING Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  bcolors ENDC  quot    This will work on unixes including OS X  Linux and Windows  provided you use ANSICON  or in Windows 10 provided you enable VT100 emulation   There are ANSI codes for setting the color  moving the cursor  and more  If you are going to get complicated with this  and it sounds like you are if you are writing a game   you should look into the  quot curses quot  module  which handles a lot of the complicated parts of this for you  The Python Curses HowTO is a good introduction  If you are not using extended ASCII  i e   not on a PC   you are stuck with the ASCII characters below 127  and     or     is probably your best bet for a block  If you can ensure your terminal is using a IBM extended ASCII character set  you have many more options  Characters 176  177  178 and 219 are the  quot block characters quot   Some modern text-based programs  such as  quot Dwarf Fortress quot   emulate text mode in a graphical mode  and use images of the classic PC font  You can find some of these bitmaps that you can use on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki see  user-made tilesets   The Text Mode Demo Contest has more resources for doing graphics in text mode

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Building on joeld s answer  using https   pypi python org pypi lazyme  pip install -U lazyme  from lazyme string import color print  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  pink   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  red   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  yellow   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  green   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  blue   underline True  abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  blue   underline True  bold True  abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  pink   underline True  bold True  abc  Screenshot    Some updates to the color print with new formatters  e g    gt  gt  gt  from lazyme string import palette  highlighter  formatter  gt  gt  gt  from lazyme string import color print  gt  gt  gt  palette keys     Available colors    pink    yellow    cyan    magenta    blue    gray    default    black    green    white    red    gt  gt  gt  highlighter keys     Available highlights    blue    pink    gray    black    yellow    cyan    green    magenta    white    red    gt  gt  gt  formatter keys     Available formatter    hide    bold    italic    default    fast blinking    faint    strikethrough    underline    blinking    reverse    Note  italic  fast blinking  and strikethrough may not work on all terminals  and they don t work on Mac and Ubuntu  E g    gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   reverse True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   bold True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   faint True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   faint True  reverse True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   underline True  reverse True  foo bar  Screenshot

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Yet another PyPI module that wraps the Python  3 print function  https   pypi python org pypi colorprint It s usable in Python 2 x if you also from   future   import print  Here is a Python  2 example from the modules PyPI page  from   future   import print function from colorprint import    print  Hello    world   color  blue   end     sep       print      color  red   format   bold    blink     It outputs  quot Hello  world  quot  with the words in blue and the exclamation mark bold red and blinking

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Here s a solution that works on Windows 10 natively  Using a system call  such as os system  quot  quot    allows colours to be printed in Command Prompt and Powershell natively  import os    System call os system  quot  quot      Class of different styles class style        BLACK     033 30m      RED     033 31m      GREEN     033 32m      YELLOW     033 33m      BLUE     033 34m      MAGENTA     033 35m      CYAN     033 36m      WHITE     033 37m      UNDERLINE     033 4m      RESET     033 0m   print style YELLOW    quot Hello  World  quot    Note  Windows does not fully support ANSI codes  whether through system calls or modules  Not all text decoration is supported  and although the bright colours display  they are identical to the regular colours  Thanks to  j-l for finding an even shorter method  tl dr  Add os system  quot  quot

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Here is a simple function I use to print a text message in color without having to remember ANSI codes but rather using standard RGB tuples to define the foreground and background colors  def print in color txt msg  fore tuple  back tuple           Prints the text msg in the foreground color specified by fore tuple with the background specified by back tuple       text msg is the text  fore tuple is foreground color tuple  r g b   back tuple is background tuple  r g b      rf bf gf   fore tuple     rb gb bb   back tuple     msg     0     txt msg     mat     33 38 2     str rf          str gf          str bf      48 2     str rb         str gb          str bb     m      print msg  format mat       print   33 0m     Returns default print color to back to black    Example of use using a message with variables fore color    cyan  back color    dark green  msg    foreground color is  0  and the background color is  1   format fore color  back color  print in color msg   0 255 255    0 127 127

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Some of the solutions like  fg   lambda text  color   quot  33 38 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot  bg   lambda text  color   quot  33 48 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot   def print six row  format  end  quot  n quot        for col in range 6           color   row 6   col - 2         if color gt  0              text    quot   3d  quot  format color              print  format text color   end  quot   quot           else              print end  quot      quot       Four spaces     print end end   for row in range 0  43       print six row  fg   quot   quot       print six row  bg   print fg  quot text quot   160     OR def colored r  g  b  text       return  quot  033 38 2         m    033 38 2 255 255 255m quot  format r  g  b  text    text    Hello  World   colored text   colored 255  0  0  text  print colored text    OR class Color      COLOR    f quot  33  i m quot  for i in range 44    for i in range 44       print Color COLOR i     text     might not work on Windows 10 terminals or PowerShell windows or their might be other cases where these might not work directly  But on inserting  these two small lines at the beginning of the program might help  import os os system      os system     allows you to print ANSI codes in the Terminal which colors your output according to your choice  but there can be other system specific functions that you might need to call  to be able to print colored text in terminal

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asciimatics provides a portable support for building text UI and animations      usr bin env python from asciimatics effects import RandomNoise      pip install asciimatics from asciimatics renderers import SpeechBubble  Rainbow from asciimatics scene import Scene from asciimatics screen import Screen from asciimatics exceptions import ResizeScreenError   def demo screen       render   Rainbow screen  SpeechBubble  Rainbow        effects    RandomNoise screen  signal render       screen play  Scene effects  -1    stop on resize True   while True      try          Screen wrapper demo          break     except ResizeScreenError          pass   Asciicast

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I generated a class with all the colors using a for loop to iterate every combination of color up to 100  and then wrote a class with Python colors  Copy and paste as you will  GPLv2 by me  class colors         Colors class      Reset all colors with colors reset     Two subclasses fg for foreground and bg for background      Use as colors subclass colorname      i e  colors fg red or colors bg green     Also  the generic bold  disable  underline  reverse  strikethrough      and invisible work with the main class     i e  colors bold             reset   033 0m      bold   033 01m      disable   033 02m      underline   033 04m      reverse   033 07m      strikethrough   033 09m      invisible   033 08m      class fg          black   033 30m          red   033 31m          green   033 32m          orange   033 33m          blue   033 34m          purple   033 35m          cyan   033 36m          lightgrey   033 37m          darkgrey   033 90m          lightred   033 91m          lightgreen   033 92m          yellow   033 93m          lightblue   033 94m          pink   033 95m          lightcyan   033 96m      class bg          black   033 40m          red   033 41m          green   033 42m          orange   033 43m          blue   033 44m          purple   033 45m          cyan   033 46m          lightgrey   033 47m

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To address this problem I created a mind-numbingly simple package to print strings with interpolated color codes  called icolor   icolor includes two functions  cformat and cprint  each of which takes a string with substrings that are interpolated to map to ANSI escape sequences e g   from icolor import cformat   there is also cprint  cformat  This is  RED a red string  partially with a  xBLUE blue background    This is  x1b 31ma red string  partially with a  x1b 44mblue background x1b 0m    All the ANSI colors are included  e g   RED    BLUE   etc    as well as  RESET    BOLD  and others   Background colors have an x prefix  so a green background would be  xGREEN    One can escape   with      Given its simplicity  the best documentation is probably the code itself   It is on PYPI  so one can sudo easy install icolor

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def black text       print   033 30m   text    033 0m   sep      def red text       print   033 31m   text    033 0m   sep      def green text       print   033 32m   text    033 0m   sep      def yellow text       print   033 33m   text    033 0m   sep      def blue text       print   033 34m   text    033 0m   sep      def magenta text       print   033 35m   text    033 0m   sep      def cyan text       print   033 36m   text    033 0m   sep      def gray text       print   033 90m   text    033 0m   sep       black  BLACK   red  RED   green  GREEN   yellow  YELLOW   blue  BLACK   magenta  MAGENTA   cyan  CYAN   gray  GRAY     Try online

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For Windows you cannot print to console with colors unless you re using the Win32 API  For Linux it s as simple as using print  with the escape sequences outlined here  Colors For the character to print like a box  it really depends on what font you are using for the console window  The pound symbol works well  but it depends on the font

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I am new to Python and I m excited every time I discover topics  like this one  But this time  suddenly  I feel like I have what to say  Especially because a few minutes ago I discovered a wow thing in Python  at least for me now   Context Managers from contextlib import contextmanager   FORECOLOR BLACKFC REDFC GREENFC YELLOWFC BLUEFC    38 30m   38 31m   38 32m   38 33m   38 34m    BACKGOUND BLACKBG REDBG GREENBG YELLOWBG BLUEBG    48 40m   48 41m   48 42m   48 43m   48 44m    contextmanager def printESC prefix  color  text     print  quot  prefix  color  text  quot  format prefix prefix  color color  text text   end       yield   print  quot  prefix 0m quot  format prefix prefix    with printESC   x1B    REDFC   Colored Text      pass  Example Or just like this    FORECOLOR BLACKFC REDFC GREENFC YELLOWFC BLUEFC    38 30m   38 31m   38 32m   38 33m   38 34m    BACKGOUND BLACKBG REDBG GREENBG YELLOWBG BLUEBG    48 40m   48 41m   48 42m   48 43m   48 44m   def printESC prefix  color  text     print  quot  prefix  color  text  quot  format prefix prefix  color color  text text   end       print  quot  prefix 0m quot  format prefix prefix    printESC   x1B    REDFC   Colored Text

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Note how well the with keyword mixes with modifiers like these that need to be reset  using Python 3 and Colorama   from colorama import Fore  Style import sys  class Highlight    def   init   self  clazz  color       self color   color     self clazz   clazz   def   enter   self       print self color  end  quot  quot     def   exit   self  type  value  traceback       if self clazz    Fore        print Fore RESET  end  quot  quot       else        assert self clazz    Style       print Style RESET ALL  end  quot  quot       sys stdout flush    with Highlight Fore  Fore GREEN     print  quot this is highlighted quot   print  quot this is not quot

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I suggest this new library Printy  They just released version 1 2 0 as a cross-platform library  Check it out  Printy on GitHub It is based on flags so you can do stuff like from printy import printy    With global flags  this will apply a bold  B  red  r  color and an underline  U  to the whole text printy  quot Hello  World  quot    quot rBU quot      With inline formats  this will apply a dim  D   blue  b  to the word  Hello  and a stroken  S   yellow  y  to the word  world   and the rest will remain as the predefined format printy  quot this is a  bD Hello   yS world  text quot

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My favorite way is with the Blessings library  full disclosure  I wrote it   For example   from blessings import Terminal  t   Terminal   print t red  This is red    print t bold bright red on black  Bright red on black     To print colored bricks  the most reliable way is to print spaces with background colors  I use this technique to draw the progress bar in nose-progressive   print t on green        You can print in specific locations as well   with t location 0  5       print t on yellow        If you have to muck with other terminal capabilities in the course of your game  you can do that as well  You can use Python s standard string formatting to keep it readable   print   t clear eol You just cleared a  t bold whole t normal  line   format t t    The nice thing about Blessings is that it does its best to work on all sorts of terminals  not just the  overwhelmingly common  ANSI-color ones  It also keeps unreadable escape sequences out of your code while remaining concise to use  Have fun

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Building on joeld s answer  using https   pypi python org pypi lazyme  pip install -U lazyme  from lazyme string import color print  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  pink   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  red   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  yellow   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  green   abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  blue   underline True  abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  blue   underline True  bold True  abc  gt  gt  gt  color print  abc   color  pink   underline True  bold True  abc  Screenshot    Some updates to the color print with new formatters  e g    gt  gt  gt  from lazyme string import palette  highlighter  formatter  gt  gt  gt  from lazyme string import color print  gt  gt  gt  palette keys     Available colors    pink    yellow    cyan    magenta    blue    gray    default    black    green    white    red    gt  gt  gt  highlighter keys     Available highlights    blue    pink    gray    black    yellow    cyan    green    magenta    white    red    gt  gt  gt  formatter keys     Available formatter    hide    bold    italic    default    fast blinking    faint    strikethrough    underline    blinking    reverse    Note  italic  fast blinking  and strikethrough may not work on all terminals  and they don t work on Mac and Ubuntu  E g    gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   reverse True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   bold True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   faint True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   faint True  reverse True  foo bar  gt  gt  gt  color print  foo bar   color  pink   highlight  white   underline True  reverse True  foo bar  Screenshot

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Print a string that starts a color style  then the string  and then end the color style change with   x1b 0m   print   x1b 6 30 42m     Success       x1b 0m     Get a table of format options for shell text with the following code  def print format table         quot  quot  quot      prints table of formatted text format options      quot  quot  quot      for style in range 8           for fg in range 30 38               s1                  for bg in range 40 48                   format       join  str style   str fg   str bg                    s1      x1b  sm  s  x1b 0m     format  format              print s1          print   n    print format table    Light-on-dark example  complete   Dark-on-light example  partial

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print  quot  033 1 32 40m Bright Green   n quot

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I have a library called colorit  It is super simple  Here are some examples  from colorit import      Use this to ensure that ColorIt will be usable by certain command line interfaces   Note  This clears the terminal init colorit      Foreground print color  quot This text is red quot   Colors red   print color  quot This text is orange quot   Colors orange   print color  quot This text is yellow quot   Colors yellow   print color  quot This text is green quot   Colors green   print color  quot This text is blue quot   Colors blue   print color  quot This text is purple quot   Colors purple   print color  quot This text is white quot   Colors white      Background print background  quot This text has a background that is red quot   Colors red   print background  quot This text has a background that is orange quot   Colors orange   print background  quot This text has a background that is yellow quot   Colors yellow   print background  quot This text has a background that is green quot   Colors green   print background  quot This text has a background that is blue quot   Colors blue   print background  quot This text has a background that is purple quot   Colors purple   print background  quot This text has a background that is white quot   Colors white      Custom print color  quot This color has a custom grey text color quot    150  150  150    print background  quot This color has a custom grey background quot    150  150  150       Combination print      background          color  quot This text is blue with a white background quot   Colors blue   Colors white            If you are using Windows Command Line  this is so that it doesn t close immediately input    This gives you   It s also worth noting that this is cross platform and has been tested on Mac  Linux  and Windows  You might want to try it out  https   github com SuperMaZingCoder colorit colorit is now available to be installed with PyPi  You can install it with pip install color-it on Windows and pip3 install color-it on macOS and Linux

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There is also the Python termcolor module  Usage is pretty simple  from termcolor import colored  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green    Or in Python 3  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green     It may not be sophisticated enough  however  for game programming and the  quot colored blocks quot  that you want to do

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Here s a curses example  import curses  def main stdscr       stdscr clear       if curses has colors            for i in xrange 1  curses COLORS               curses init pair i  i  curses COLOR BLACK              stdscr addstr  quot COLOR  d   quot    i  curses color pair i               stdscr addstr  quot BOLD   quot   curses color pair i    curses A BOLD              stdscr addstr  quot STANDOUT   quot   curses color pair i    curses A STANDOUT              stdscr addstr  quot UNDERLINE   quot   curses color pair i    curses A UNDERLINE              stdscr addstr  quot BLINK   quot   curses color pair i    curses A BLINK              stdscr addstr  quot DIM   quot   curses color pair i    curses A DIM              stdscr addstr  quot REVERSE   quot   curses color pair i    curses A REVERSE      stdscr refresh       stdscr getch    if   name         main         print  quot init    quot      curses wrapper main

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I wrote a module that handles colors in Linux  OS  X  and Windows  It supports all 16 colors on all platforms  you can set foreground and background colors at different times  and the string objects give sane results for things like len   and  capitalize    https   github com Robpol86 colorclass

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Here is a simple function I use to print a text message in color without having to remember ANSI codes but rather using standard RGB tuples to define the foreground and background colors  def print in color txt msg  fore tuple  back tuple           Prints the text msg in the foreground color specified by fore tuple with the background specified by back tuple       text msg is the text  fore tuple is foreground color tuple  r g b   back tuple is background tuple  r g b      rf bf gf   fore tuple     rb gb bb   back tuple     msg     0     txt msg     mat     33 38 2     str rf          str gf          str bf      48 2     str rb         str gb          str bb     m      print msg  format mat       print   33 0m     Returns default print color to back to black    Example of use using a message with variables fore color    cyan  back color    dark green  msg    foreground color is  0  and the background color is  1   format fore color  back color  print in color msg   0 255 255    0 127 127

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The answer is Colorama for all cross-platform coloring in Python  It supports Python 3 5  as well as Python 2 7  And as of January 2021 it is maintained  Example screenshot

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I am new to Python and I m excited every time I discover topics  like this one  But this time  suddenly  I feel like I have what to say  Especially because a few minutes ago I discovered a wow thing in Python  at least for me now   Context Managers from contextlib import contextmanager   FORECOLOR BLACKFC REDFC GREENFC YELLOWFC BLUEFC    38 30m   38 31m   38 32m   38 33m   38 34m    BACKGOUND BLACKBG REDBG GREENBG YELLOWBG BLUEBG    48 40m   48 41m   48 42m   48 43m   48 44m    contextmanager def printESC prefix  color  text     print  quot  prefix  color  text  quot  format prefix prefix  color color  text text   end       yield   print  quot  prefix 0m quot  format prefix prefix    with printESC   x1B    REDFC   Colored Text      pass  Example Or just like this    FORECOLOR BLACKFC REDFC GREENFC YELLOWFC BLUEFC    38 30m   38 31m   38 32m   38 33m   38 34m    BACKGOUND BLACKBG REDBG GREENBG YELLOWBG BLUEBG    48 40m   48 41m   48 42m   48 43m   48 44m   def printESC prefix  color  text     print  quot  prefix  color  text  quot  format prefix prefix  color color  text text   end       print  quot  prefix 0m quot  format prefix prefix    printESC   x1B    REDFC   Colored Text

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This is  in my opinion  the easiest method  As long as you have the RGB values of the color you want  this should work  def colored r  g  b  text       return  quot  033 38 2         m    033 38 2 255 255 255m quot  format r  g  b  text   An example of printing red text  text    Hello  World   colored text   colored 255  0  0  text  print colored text    or  print colored 255  0  0   Hello  World       Multi-colored text text   colored 255  0  0   Hello       colored 0  255  0   World   print text

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I suggest this new library Printy  They just released version 1 2 0 as a cross-platform library  Check it out  Printy on GitHub It is based on flags so you can do stuff like from printy import printy    With global flags  this will apply a bold  B  red  r  color and an underline  U  to the whole text printy  quot Hello  World  quot    quot rBU quot      With inline formats  this will apply a dim  D   blue  b  to the word  Hello  and a stroken  S   yellow  y  to the word  world   and the rest will remain as the predefined format printy  quot this is a  bD Hello   yS world  text quot

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If you are programming a game perhaps you would like to change the background color and use only spaces  For example   print        033 01 41m           033 01 46m              033 01 42m

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My favorite way is with the Blessings library  full disclosure  I wrote it   For example   from blessings import Terminal  t   Terminal   print t red  This is red    print t bold bright red on black  Bright red on black     To print colored bricks  the most reliable way is to print spaces with background colors  I use this technique to draw the progress bar in nose-progressive   print t on green        You can print in specific locations as well   with t location 0  5       print t on yellow        If you have to muck with other terminal capabilities in the course of your game  you can do that as well  You can use Python s standard string formatting to keep it readable   print   t clear eol You just cleared a  t bold whole t normal  line   format t t    The nice thing about Blessings is that it does its best to work on all sorts of terminals  not just the  overwhelmingly common  ANSI-color ones  It also keeps unreadable escape sequences out of your code while remaining concise to use  Have fun

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Some of the solutions like  fg   lambda text  color   quot  33 38 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot  bg   lambda text  color   quot  33 48 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot   def print six row  format  end  quot  n quot        for col in range 6           color   row 6   col - 2         if color gt  0              text    quot   3d  quot  format color              print  format text color   end  quot   quot           else              print end  quot      quot       Four spaces     print end end   for row in range 0  43       print six row  fg   quot   quot       print six row  bg   print fg  quot text quot   160     OR def colored r  g  b  text       return  quot  033 38 2         m    033 38 2 255 255 255m quot  format r  g  b  text    text    Hello  World   colored text   colored 255  0  0  text  print colored text    OR class Color      COLOR    f quot  33  i m quot  for i in range 44    for i in range 44       print Color COLOR i     text     might not work on Windows 10 terminals or PowerShell windows or their might be other cases where these might not work directly  But on inserting  these two small lines at the beginning of the program might help  import os os system      os system     allows you to print ANSI codes in the Terminal which colors your output according to your choice  but there can be other system specific functions that you might need to call  to be able to print colored text in terminal

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Stupidly simple  based on joeld s answer  class PrintInColor      RED     033 91m      GREEN     033 92m      YELLOW     033 93m      LIGHT PURPLE     033 94m      PURPLE     033 95m      END     033 0m        classmethod     def red cls  s    kwargs           print cls RED   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def green cls  s    kwargs           print cls GREEN   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def yellow cls  s    kwargs           print cls YELLOW   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def lightPurple cls  s    kwargs           print cls LIGHT PURPLE   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def purple cls  s    kwargs           print cls PURPLE   s   cls END    kwargs   Then just PrintInColor red  hello   end      PrintInColor green  world

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https   raw github com fabric fabric master fabric colors py         versionadded   0 9 2  Functions for wrapping strings in ANSI color codes   Each function within this module returns the input string   text    wrapped with ANSI color codes for the appropriate color   For example  to print some text as green on supporting terminals        from fabric colors import green      print green  This text is green      Because these functions simply return modified strings  you can nest them        from fabric colors import red  green      print red  This sentence is red  except for                 green  these words  which are green            If   bold   is set to   True    the ANSI flag for bolding will be flipped on for that particular invocation  which usually shows up as a bold or brighter version of the original color on most terminals        def  wrap with code        def inner text  bold False           c   code         if bold              c    1  s    c         return   033  sm s 033 0m     c  text      return inner  red    wrap with  31   green    wrap with  32   yellow    wrap with  33   blue    wrap with  34   magenta    wrap with  35   cyan    wrap with  36   white    wrap with  37

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On Windows you can use module  win32console   available in some Python distributions  or module  ctypes   Python 2 5 and up  to access the Win32 API   To see complete code that supports both ways  see the color console reporting code from Testoob   ctypes example   import ctypes    Constants from the Windows API STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 FOREGROUND RED      0x0004   text color contains red   def get csbi attributes handle         Based on IPython s winconsole py  written by Alexander Belchenko     import struct     csbi   ctypes create string buffer 22      res   ctypes windll kernel32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo handle  csbi      assert res       bufx  bufy  curx  cury  wattr      left  top  right  bottom  maxx  maxy    struct unpack  hhhhHhhhhhh   csbi raw      return wattr   handle   ctypes windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE  reset   get csbi attributes handle   ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  FOREGROUND RED  print  Cherry on top  ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  reset

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If you are using Windows  then here you go    Display text on a Windows console   Windows XP with Python 2 7 or Python amp nbsp 3 2 from ctypes import windll    Needed for Python2 Python3 diff try      input   raw input except      pass STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 stdout handle   windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE    Look at the output and select the color you want    For instance  hex E is yellow on black    Hex 1E is yellow on blue    Hex 2E is yellow on green and so on  for color in range 0  75        windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute stdout handle  color       print  quot  X -- gt   s quot     color   quot Have a fine day  quot         input  quot Press Enter to go on      quot

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If you are using Django   gt  gt  gt  from django utils termcolors import colorize  gt  gt  gt  print colorize  quot Hello  World  quot   fg  quot blue quot   bg  red                       opts   bold    blink    underscore     Hello World   gt  gt  gt  help colorize   Snapshot    I generally use colored output for debugging on runserver terminal  so I added it   You can test if it is installed in your machine    python -c  quot import django  print django VERSION quot   To install it  check  How to install Django Give it a try

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The simplest way I can find is not to use ANSI escape codes  but use Fore from import module colorama  Take a look at the code below   from colorama import Fore  Style  print Fore MAGENTA    IZZ MAGENTA BRUH     print Style RESET ALL    IZZ BACK TO NORMALZ      compared to the ANSI escape code   print   u001b 31m IZZ RED  NO MAGENTA ON ANSI CODES   u001b 0m    print  BACK TO NORMALZ

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You could use Clint  from clint textui import colored print colored red  some warning message   print colored green  nicely done

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Here s a solution that works on Windows 10 natively  Using a system call  such as os system  quot  quot    allows colours to be printed in Command Prompt and Powershell natively  import os    System call os system  quot  quot      Class of different styles class style        BLACK     033 30m      RED     033 31m      GREEN     033 32m      YELLOW     033 33m      BLUE     033 34m      MAGENTA     033 35m      CYAN     033 36m      WHITE     033 37m      UNDERLINE     033 4m      RESET     033 0m   print style YELLOW    quot Hello  World  quot    Note  Windows does not fully support ANSI codes  whether through system calls or modules  Not all text decoration is supported  and although the bright colours display  they are identical to the regular colours  Thanks to  j-l for finding an even shorter method  tl dr  Add os system  quot  quot

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sty is similar to colorama  but it s less verbose  supports 8-bit and 24-bit  RGB  colors  supports all effects  bold  underline  etc   allows you to register your own styles  is fully typed  supports muting  is really flexible  well documented and more    Examples  from sty import fg  bg  ef  rs  foo   fg red    This is red text     fg rs bar   bg blue    This has a blue background     bg rs baz   ef italic    This is italic text    rs italic qux   fg 201     This is pink text using 8bit colors    fg rs qui   fg 255  10  10     This is red text using 24bit colors     fg rs    Add custom colors   from sty import Style  RgbFg  fg orange   Style RgbFg 255  150  50    buf   fg orange    Yay  Im orange     fg rs  print foo  bar  baz  qux  qui  buf  sep   n    prints   Demo

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YAY  Another version While I find this answer useful  I modified it a bit  This GitHub Gist is the result Usage print colors draw  quot i m yellow quot   bold True  fg yellow True    In addition  you can wrap common usages  print colors error  sorry       https   gist github com Jossef 0ee20314577925b4027f

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You want to learn about ANSI escape sequences  Here s a brief example  CSI    quot  x1B  quot  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot     quot Colored Text quot    CSI    quot 0m quot    For more information  see ANSI escape code  For a block character  try a Unicode character like  u2588  print u quot  u2588 quot    Putting it all together  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot    u quot  u2588 quot    CSI    quot 0m quot

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This somewhat depends on what platform you are on  The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences  For a simple example  here s some Python code from the Blender build scripts  class bcolors      HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKCYAN     033 96m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD     033 1m      UNDERLINE     033 4m   To use code like this  you can do something like  print bcolors WARNING    quot Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  quot    bcolors ENDC   Or  with Python 3 6   print f quot  bcolors WARNING Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  bcolors ENDC  quot    This will work on unixes including OS X  Linux and Windows  provided you use ANSICON  or in Windows 10 provided you enable VT100 emulation   There are ANSI codes for setting the color  moving the cursor  and more  If you are going to get complicated with this  and it sounds like you are if you are writing a game   you should look into the  quot curses quot  module  which handles a lot of the complicated parts of this for you  The Python Curses HowTO is a good introduction  If you are not using extended ASCII  i e   not on a PC   you are stuck with the ASCII characters below 127  and     or     is probably your best bet for a block  If you can ensure your terminal is using a IBM extended ASCII character set  you have many more options  Characters 176  177  178 and 219 are the  quot block characters quot   Some modern text-based programs  such as  quot Dwarf Fortress quot   emulate text mode in a graphical mode  and use images of the classic PC font  You can find some of these bitmaps that you can use on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki see  user-made tilesets   The Text Mode Demo Contest has more resources for doing graphics in text mode

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I created a project  console-color  and already published it to PyPI  You can throw pip install console-color to install it  And I write the document with Sphinx-read-the-doc  see here  You can get more example from google-colab  I still post some example to attract the user to click the above link    cprint is something like below   cprint text  str  fore  T RGB   None  bg  T RGB   None  style  Style         where T RGB   Union Tuple int  int  int   str  for example  You can input  255  0  0  or   ff0000  or  ff0000   They are OK    The Style you can input the   Style     the IDE will help you to choose what you wanted     from console color import RGB  Fore  Style  cprint  create print from console color import    cprint  quot Hello  World  quot   RGB RED  RGB YELLOW  Style BOLD Style URL Style STRIKE  cprint  quot Hello  World  quot   fore  255  0  0   bg  quot ffff00 quot   style Style BOLD Style URL Style STRIKE    Of course  you don   t have to enter all the parameters  You can just add the attributes you want   To be honest  this project is not special  It just uses the f quot  033  target  2  r   g   b m text  style  quot  where target is 38 or 48  text is your input string  and style is   33 0m     33 1m        033 9m   Some kind of stuff  And I just make it easy to use  at least for me

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You can use the Python implementation of the curses library  curses     Terminal handling for character-cell displays Also  run this and you ll find your box  for i in range 255       print i  chr i

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Try this simple code def prRed prt   print  quot  033 91m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prGreen prt   print  quot  033 92m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prYellow prt   print  quot  033 93m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prLightPurple prt   print  quot  033 94m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prPurple prt   print  quot  033 95m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prCyan prt   print  quot  033 96m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prLightGray prt   print  quot  033 97m    033 00m quot   format prt   def prBlack prt   print  quot  033 98m    033 00m quot   format prt    prGreen  quot Hello  World  quot

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If you are using Django   gt  gt  gt  from django utils termcolors import colorize  gt  gt  gt  print colorize  quot Hello  World  quot   fg  quot blue quot   bg  red                       opts   bold    blink    underscore     Hello World   gt  gt  gt  help colorize   Snapshot    I generally use colored output for debugging on runserver terminal  so I added it   You can test if it is installed in your machine    python -c  quot import django  print django VERSION quot   To install it  check  How to install Django Give it a try

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If you are programming a game perhaps you would like to change the background color and use only spaces  For example   print        033 01 41m           033 01 46m              033 01 42m

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There is also the Python termcolor module  Usage is pretty simple  from termcolor import colored  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green    Or in Python 3  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green     It may not be sophisticated enough  however  for game programming and the  quot colored blocks quot  that you want to do

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Rich is a relatively new Python library for working with color in the terminal  There are a few ways of working with color in Rich  The quickest way to get started would be the rich print method which renders a BBCode-like syntax in to ANSI control codes  from rich import print print  quot  red Color    in the  bold magenta Terminal     quot    There are other ways of applying color with Rich  regex  syntax  and related formatting features

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An easier option would be to use the cprint function from the termcolor package   It also supports  s   d format of printing

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I wrote a simple module  available at  http   pypi python org pypi colorconsole  It works with Windows  Mac OS X and Linux  It uses ANSI for Linux and Mac  but native calls to console functions on Windows  You have colors  cursor positioning and keyboard input  It is not a replacement for curses  but can be very useful if you need to use in simple scripts or ASCII games

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On Windows you can use module  win32console   available in some Python distributions  or module  ctypes   Python 2 5 and up  to access the Win32 API   To see complete code that supports both ways  see the color console reporting code from Testoob   ctypes example   import ctypes    Constants from the Windows API STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 FOREGROUND RED      0x0004   text color contains red   def get csbi attributes handle         Based on IPython s winconsole py  written by Alexander Belchenko     import struct     csbi   ctypes create string buffer 22      res   ctypes windll kernel32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo handle  csbi      assert res       bufx  bufy  curx  cury  wattr      left  top  right  bottom  maxx  maxy    struct unpack  hhhhHhhhhhh   csbi raw      return wattr   handle   ctypes windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE  reset   get csbi attributes handle   ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  FOREGROUND RED  print  Cherry on top  ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  reset

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I wrote a simple module  available at  http   pypi python org pypi colorconsole  It works with Windows  Mac OS X and Linux  It uses ANSI for Linux and Mac  but native calls to console functions on Windows  You have colors  cursor positioning and keyboard input  It is not a replacement for curses  but can be very useful if you need to use in simple scripts or ASCII games

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My two cents  PyColorTerm    Installation   sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install pycolorterm   Python script   from pycolorterm import pycolorterm  with pycolorterm pretty output pycolorterm FG GREEN  as out      out write  Works OK       works OK   shows in green

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For Windows you cannot print to console with colors unless you re using the Win32 API  For Linux it s as simple as using print  with the escape sequences outlined here  Colors For the character to print like a box  it really depends on what font you are using for the console window  The pound symbol works well  but it depends on the font

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This somewhat depends on what platform you are on  The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences  For a simple example  here s some Python code from the Blender build scripts  class bcolors      HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKCYAN     033 96m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD     033 1m      UNDERLINE     033 4m   To use code like this  you can do something like  print bcolors WARNING    quot Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  quot    bcolors ENDC   Or  with Python 3 6   print f quot  bcolors WARNING Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  bcolors ENDC  quot    This will work on unixes including OS X  Linux and Windows  provided you use ANSICON  or in Windows 10 provided you enable VT100 emulation   There are ANSI codes for setting the color  moving the cursor  and more  If you are going to get complicated with this  and it sounds like you are if you are writing a game   you should look into the  quot curses quot  module  which handles a lot of the complicated parts of this for you  The Python Curses HowTO is a good introduction  If you are not using extended ASCII  i e   not on a PC   you are stuck with the ASCII characters below 127  and     or     is probably your best bet for a block  If you can ensure your terminal is using a IBM extended ASCII character set  you have many more options  Characters 176  177  178 and 219 are the  quot block characters quot   Some modern text-based programs  such as  quot Dwarf Fortress quot   emulate text mode in a graphical mode  and use images of the classic PC font  You can find some of these bitmaps that you can use on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki see  user-made tilesets   The Text Mode Demo Contest has more resources for doing graphics in text mode

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YAY  Another version While I find this answer useful  I modified it a bit  This GitHub Gist is the result Usage print colors draw  quot i m yellow quot   bold True  fg yellow True    In addition  you can wrap common usages  print colors error  sorry       https   gist github com Jossef 0ee20314577925b4027f

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Use pyfancy  It is a simple way to do color in the terminal  Example  print pyfancy RED    quot Hello Red quot    pyfancy END

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You can use the Python implementation of the curses library  curses     Terminal handling for character-cell displays Also  run this and you ll find your box  for i in range 255       print i  chr i

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import click  click secho  Hello  World    fg  green   click secho  Some more text   bg  blue   fg  white   click secho  ATTENTION   blink True  bold True   click  CLI library  has a very convenient way of doing this  and is worth considering if you re writing a command-line tool  anyway

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You want to learn about ANSI escape sequences  Here s a brief example  CSI    quot  x1B  quot  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot     quot Colored Text quot    CSI    quot 0m quot    For more information  see ANSI escape code  For a block character  try a Unicode character like  u2588  print u quot  u2588 quot    Putting it all together  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot    u quot  u2588 quot    CSI    quot 0m quot

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The answer is Colorama for all cross-platform coloring in Python  It supports Python 3 5  as well as Python 2 7  And as of January 2021 it is maintained  Example screenshot

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You can use shell escape characters that are available from any language  These escape characters start with the ESC character followed by a number of arguments  For example  to output a red  quot Hello  World  quot  string in your terminal  echo  quot  e 31m Hello  World   e 0m quot   Or from a Python script  print  quot  e 31m Hello world  e 0m quot    Also  I wrote an article about Escape sequences that can probably help you get a better grasp of this mechanism

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If you are programming a game perhaps you would like to change the background color and use only spaces  For example   print        033 01 41m           033 01 46m              033 01 42m

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I ended up doing this  and I felt it was cleanest  formatters          RED     033 91m        GREEN     033 92m        END     033 0m      print  Master is currently  RED red END    format   formatters  print  Help make master  GREEN green END  again   format   formatters

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Pure Python 3 x demo  256 colors   Works with bash under Linux and MacOS  fg   lambda text  color   quot  33 38 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot  bg   lambda text  color   quot  33 48 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot   def print six row  format  end  quot  n quot        for col in range 6           color   row 6   col - 2         if color gt  0              text    quot   3d  quot  format color              print  format text color   end  quot   quot           else              print end  quot      quot       four spaces     print end end   for row in range 0  43       print six row  fg   quot   quot       print six row  bg     Simple usage  print fg  quot text quot   160      Try it online

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import click  click secho  Hello  World    fg  green   click secho  Some more text   bg  blue   fg  white   click secho  ATTENTION   blink True  bold True   click  CLI library  has a very convenient way of doing this  and is worth considering if you re writing a command-line tool  anyway

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On Windows you can use module  win32console   available in some Python distributions  or module  ctypes   Python 2 5 and up  to access the Win32 API   To see complete code that supports both ways  see the color console reporting code from Testoob   ctypes example   import ctypes    Constants from the Windows API STD OUTPUT HANDLE   -11 FOREGROUND RED      0x0004   text color contains red   def get csbi attributes handle         Based on IPython s winconsole py  written by Alexander Belchenko     import struct     csbi   ctypes create string buffer 22      res   ctypes windll kernel32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo handle  csbi      assert res       bufx  bufy  curx  cury  wattr      left  top  right  bottom  maxx  maxy    struct unpack  hhhhHhhhhhh   csbi raw      return wattr   handle   ctypes windll kernel32 GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE  reset   get csbi attributes handle   ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  FOREGROUND RED  print  Cherry on top  ctypes windll kernel32 SetConsoleTextAttribute handle  reset

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To address this problem I created a mind-numbingly simple package to print strings with interpolated color codes  called icolor   icolor includes two functions  cformat and cprint  each of which takes a string with substrings that are interpolated to map to ANSI escape sequences e g   from icolor import cformat   there is also cprint  cformat  This is  RED a red string  partially with a  xBLUE blue background    This is  x1b 31ma red string  partially with a  x1b 44mblue background x1b 0m    All the ANSI colors are included  e g   RED    BLUE   etc    as well as  RESET    BOLD  and others   Background colors have an x prefix  so a green background would be  xGREEN    One can escape   with      Given its simplicity  the best documentation is probably the code itself   It is on PYPI  so one can sudo easy install icolor

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I wrote a module that handles colors in Linux  OS  X  and Windows  It supports all 16 colors on all platforms  you can set foreground and background colors at different times  and the string objects give sane results for things like len   and  capitalize    https   github com Robpol86 colorclass

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For Windows you cannot print to console with colors unless you re using the Win32 API  For Linux it s as simple as using print  with the escape sequences outlined here  Colors For the character to print like a box  it really depends on what font you are using for the console window  The pound symbol works well  but it depends on the font

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I created a project  console-color  and already published it to PyPI  You can throw pip install console-color to install it  And I write the document with Sphinx-read-the-doc  see here  You can get more example from google-colab  I still post some example to attract the user to click the above link    cprint is something like below   cprint text  str  fore  T RGB   None  bg  T RGB   None  style  Style         where T RGB   Union Tuple int  int  int   str  for example  You can input  255  0  0  or   ff0000  or  ff0000   They are OK    The Style you can input the   Style     the IDE will help you to choose what you wanted     from console color import RGB  Fore  Style  cprint  create print from console color import    cprint  quot Hello  World  quot   RGB RED  RGB YELLOW  Style BOLD Style URL Style STRIKE  cprint  quot Hello  World  quot   fore  255  0  0   bg  quot ffff00 quot   style Style BOLD Style URL Style STRIKE    Of course  you don   t have to enter all the parameters  You can just add the attributes you want   To be honest  this project is not special  It just uses the f quot  033  target  2  r   g   b m text  style  quot  where target is 38 or 48  text is your input string  and style is   33 0m     33 1m        033 9m   Some kind of stuff  And I just make it easy to use  at least for me

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I have a library called colorit  It is super simple  Here are some examples  from colorit import      Use this to ensure that ColorIt will be usable by certain command line interfaces   Note  This clears the terminal init colorit      Foreground print color  quot This text is red quot   Colors red   print color  quot This text is orange quot   Colors orange   print color  quot This text is yellow quot   Colors yellow   print color  quot This text is green quot   Colors green   print color  quot This text is blue quot   Colors blue   print color  quot This text is purple quot   Colors purple   print color  quot This text is white quot   Colors white      Background print background  quot This text has a background that is red quot   Colors red   print background  quot This text has a background that is orange quot   Colors orange   print background  quot This text has a background that is yellow quot   Colors yellow   print background  quot This text has a background that is green quot   Colors green   print background  quot This text has a background that is blue quot   Colors blue   print background  quot This text has a background that is purple quot   Colors purple   print background  quot This text has a background that is white quot   Colors white      Custom print color  quot This color has a custom grey text color quot    150  150  150    print background  quot This color has a custom grey background quot    150  150  150       Combination print      background          color  quot This text is blue with a white background quot   Colors blue   Colors white            If you are using Windows Command Line  this is so that it doesn t close immediately input    This gives you   It s also worth noting that this is cross platform and has been tested on Mac  Linux  and Windows  You might want to try it out  https   github com SuperMaZingCoder colorit colorit is now available to be installed with PyPi  You can install it with pip install color-it on Windows and pip3 install color-it on macOS and Linux

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This somewhat depends on what platform you are on  The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences  For a simple example  here s some Python code from the Blender build scripts  class bcolors      HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKCYAN     033 96m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD     033 1m      UNDERLINE     033 4m   To use code like this  you can do something like  print bcolors WARNING    quot Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  quot    bcolors ENDC   Or  with Python 3 6   print f quot  bcolors WARNING Warning  No active frommets remain  Continue  bcolors ENDC  quot    This will work on unixes including OS X  Linux and Windows  provided you use ANSICON  or in Windows 10 provided you enable VT100 emulation   There are ANSI codes for setting the color  moving the cursor  and more  If you are going to get complicated with this  and it sounds like you are if you are writing a game   you should look into the  quot curses quot  module  which handles a lot of the complicated parts of this for you  The Python Curses HowTO is a good introduction  If you are not using extended ASCII  i e   not on a PC   you are stuck with the ASCII characters below 127  and     or     is probably your best bet for a block  If you can ensure your terminal is using a IBM extended ASCII character set  you have many more options  Characters 176  177  178 and 219 are the  quot block characters quot   Some modern text-based programs  such as  quot Dwarf Fortress quot   emulate text mode in a graphical mode  and use images of the classic PC font  You can find some of these bitmaps that you can use on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki see  user-made tilesets   The Text Mode Demo Contest has more resources for doing graphics in text mode

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For the characters  Your terminal most probably uses Unicode  typically UTF-8 encoded  characters  so it s only a matter of the appropriate font selection to see your favorite character  Unicode char U 2588   Full block  is the one I would suggest you use   Try the following   import unicodedata fp  open  character list    w   for index in xrange 65536       char  unichr index      try  its name  unicodedata name char      except ValueError  its name   N A      fp write   05d  04x  s  s n     index  index  char encode  UTF-8    its name  fp close     Examine the file later with your favourite viewer   For the colors  curses is the module you want to use  Check this tutorial

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For the characters  Your terminal most probably uses Unicode  typically UTF-8 encoded  characters  so it s only a matter of the appropriate font selection to see your favorite character  Unicode char U 2588   Full block  is the one I would suggest you use   Try the following   import unicodedata fp  open  character list    w   for index in xrange 65536       char  unichr index      try  its name  unicodedata name char      except ValueError  its name   N A      fp write   05d  04x  s  s n     index  index  char encode  UTF-8    its name  fp close     Examine the file later with your favourite viewer   For the colors  curses is the module you want to use  Check this tutorial

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Emoji

You can use colors for text as others mentioned in their answers to have colorful text with a background or foreground color.

But you can use emojis instead! for example, you can use?? for warning messages and for error messages.

Or simply use these notebooks as a color:

: error message
: warning message
: ok status message
: action message
: canceled status message
: Or anything you like and want to recognize immediately by color

Bonus:

This method also helps you to quickly scan and find logs directly in the source code.

_{But some operating systems (including some Linux distributions in some version with some window managers) default emoji font is not colorful by default and you may want to make them colorful, first.}

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You can use shell escape characters that are available from any language  These escape characters start with the ESC character followed by a number of arguments  For example  to output a red  quot Hello  World  quot  string in your terminal  echo  quot  e 31m Hello  World   e 0m quot   Or from a Python script  print  quot  e 31m Hello world  e 0m quot    Also  I wrote an article about Escape sequences that can probably help you get a better grasp of this mechanism

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I ended up doing this  and I felt it was cleanest  formatters          RED     033 91m        GREEN     033 92m        END     033 0m      print  Master is currently  RED red END    format   formatters  print  Help make master  GREEN green END  again   format   formatters

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For the characters  Your terminal most probably uses Unicode  typically UTF-8 encoded  characters  so it s only a matter of the appropriate font selection to see your favorite character  Unicode char U 2588   Full block  is the one I would suggest you use   Try the following   import unicodedata fp  open  character list    w   for index in xrange 65536       char  unichr index      try  its name  unicodedata name char      except ValueError  its name   N A      fp write   05d  04x  s  s n     index  index  char encode  UTF-8    its name  fp close     Examine the file later with your favourite viewer   For the colors  curses is the module you want to use  Check this tutorial

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For Windows you cannot print to console with colors unless you re using the Win32 API  For Linux it s as simple as using print  with the escape sequences outlined here  Colors For the character to print like a box  it really depends on what font you are using for the console window  The pound symbol works well  but it depends on the font

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My two cents  PyColorTerm    Installation   sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install pycolorterm   Python script   from pycolorterm import pycolorterm  with pycolorterm pretty output pycolorterm FG GREEN  as out      out write  Works OK       works OK   shows in green

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Pure Python 3 x demo  256 colors   Works with bash under Linux and MacOS  fg   lambda text  color   quot  33 38 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot  bg   lambda text  color   quot  33 48 5  quot    str color     quot m quot    text    quot  33 0m quot   def print six row  format  end  quot  n quot        for col in range 6           color   row 6   col - 2         if color gt  0              text    quot   3d  quot  format color              print  format text color   end  quot   quot           else              print end  quot      quot       four spaces     print end end   for row in range 0  43       print six row  fg   quot   quot       print six row  bg     Simple usage  print fg  quot text quot   160      Try it online

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There is also the Python termcolor module  Usage is pretty simple  from termcolor import colored  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green    Or in Python 3  print colored  hello    red    colored  world    green     It may not be sophisticated enough  however  for game programming and the  quot colored blocks quot  that you want to do

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Stupidly simple  based on joeld s answer  class PrintInColor      RED     033 91m      GREEN     033 92m      YELLOW     033 93m      LIGHT PURPLE     033 94m      PURPLE     033 95m      END     033 0m        classmethod     def red cls  s    kwargs           print cls RED   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def green cls  s    kwargs           print cls GREEN   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def yellow cls  s    kwargs           print cls YELLOW   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def lightPurple cls  s    kwargs           print cls LIGHT PURPLE   s   cls END    kwargs        classmethod     def purple cls  s    kwargs           print cls PURPLE   s   cls END    kwargs   Then just PrintInColor red  hello   end      PrintInColor green  world

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sty is similar to colorama  but it s less verbose  supports 8-bit and 24-bit  RGB  colors  supports all effects  bold  underline  etc   allows you to register your own styles  is fully typed  supports muting  is really flexible  well documented and more    Examples  from sty import fg  bg  ef  rs  foo   fg red    This is red text     fg rs bar   bg blue    This has a blue background     bg rs baz   ef italic    This is italic text    rs italic qux   fg 201     This is pink text using 8bit colors    fg rs qui   fg 255  10  10     This is red text using 24bit colors     fg rs    Add custom colors   from sty import Style  RgbFg  fg orange   Style RgbFg 255  150  50    buf   fg orange    Yay  Im orange     fg rs  print foo  bar  baz  qux  qui  buf  sep   n    prints   Demo

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If you are programming a game perhaps you would like to change the background color and use only spaces  For example   print        033 01 41m           033 01 46m              033 01 42m

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You want to learn about ANSI escape sequences  Here s a brief example  CSI    quot  x1B  quot  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot     quot Colored Text quot    CSI    quot 0m quot    For more information  see ANSI escape code  For a block character  try a Unicode character like  u2588  print u quot  u2588 quot    Putting it all together  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot    u quot  u2588 quot    CSI    quot 0m quot

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I have wrapped joeld s answer into a module with global functions that I can use anywhere in my code  File  log py def enable        HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD    quot  033 1m quot   def disable        HEADER          OKBLUE          OKGREEN          WARNING          FAIL          ENDC       def infog msg       print OKGREEN   msg   ENDC   def info msg       print OKBLUE   msg   ENDC   def warn msg       print WARNING   msg   ENDC   def err msg       print FAIL   msg   ENDC   enable    Use as follows  import log log info  quot Hello  World  quot   log err  quot System Error quot

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Print a string that starts a color style  then the string  and then end the color style change with   x1b 0m   print   x1b 6 30 42m     Success       x1b 0m     Get a table of format options for shell text with the following code  def print format table         quot  quot  quot      prints table of formatted text format options      quot  quot  quot      for style in range 8           for fg in range 30 38               s1                  for bg in range 40 48                   format       join  str style   str fg   str bg                    s1      x1b  sm  s  x1b 0m     format  format              print s1          print   n    print format table    Light-on-dark example  complete   Dark-on-light example  partial

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You can use the Python implementation of the curses library  curses     Terminal handling for character-cell displays Also  run this and you ll find your box  for i in range 255       print i  chr i

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https   raw github com fabric fabric master fabric colors py         versionadded   0 9 2  Functions for wrapping strings in ANSI color codes   Each function within this module returns the input string   text    wrapped with ANSI color codes for the appropriate color   For example  to print some text as green on supporting terminals        from fabric colors import green      print green  This text is green      Because these functions simply return modified strings  you can nest them        from fabric colors import red  green      print red  This sentence is red  except for                 green  these words  which are green            If   bold   is set to   True    the ANSI flag for bolding will be flipped on for that particular invocation  which usually shows up as a bold or brighter version of the original color on most terminals        def  wrap with code        def inner text  bold False           c   code         if bold              c    1  s    c         return   033  sm s 033 0m     c  text      return inner  red    wrap with  31   green    wrap with  32   yellow    wrap with  33   blue    wrap with  34   magenta    wrap with  35   cyan    wrap with  36   white    wrap with  37

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asciimatics provides a portable support for building text UI and animations      usr bin env python from asciimatics effects import RandomNoise      pip install asciimatics from asciimatics renderers import SpeechBubble  Rainbow from asciimatics scene import Scene from asciimatics screen import Screen from asciimatics exceptions import ResizeScreenError   def demo screen       render   Rainbow screen  SpeechBubble  Rainbow        effects    RandomNoise screen  signal render       screen play  Scene effects  -1    stop on resize True   while True      try          Screen wrapper demo          break     except ResizeScreenError          pass   Asciicast

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def black text       print   033 30m   text    033 0m   sep      def red text       print   033 31m   text    033 0m   sep      def green text       print   033 32m   text    033 0m   sep      def yellow text       print   033 33m   text    033 0m   sep      def blue text       print   033 34m   text    033 0m   sep      def magenta text       print   033 35m   text    033 0m   sep      def cyan text       print   033 36m   text    033 0m   sep      def gray text       print   033 90m   text    033 0m   sep       black  BLACK   red  RED   green  GREEN   yellow  YELLOW   blue  BLACK   magenta  MAGENTA   cyan  CYAN   gray  GRAY     Try online

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You want to learn about ANSI escape sequences  Here s a brief example  CSI    quot  x1B  quot  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot     quot Colored Text quot    CSI    quot 0m quot    For more information  see ANSI escape code  For a block character  try a Unicode character like  u2588  print u quot  u2588 quot    Putting it all together  print CSI  quot 31 40m quot    u quot  u2588 quot    CSI    quot 0m quot

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Define a string that starts a color and a string that ends the color  Then print your text with the start string at the front and the end string at the end  CRED     033 91m  CEND     033 0m  print CRED    quot Error  does not compute  quot    CEND   This produces the following in Bash  in urxvt with a Zenburn-style color scheme   Through experimentation  we can get more colors   Note   33 5m and  33 6m are blinking  This way we can create a full color collection  CEND          33 0m  CBOLD         33 1m  CITALIC       33 3m  CURL          33 4m  CBLINK        33 5m  CBLINK2       33 6m  CSELECTED     33 7m   CBLACK      33 30m  CRED        33 31m  CGREEN      33 32m  CYELLOW     33 33m  CBLUE       33 34m  CVIOLET     33 35m  CBEIGE      33 36m  CWHITE      33 37m   CBLACKBG      33 40m  CREDBG        33 41m  CGREENBG      33 42m  CYELLOWBG     33 43m  CBLUEBG       33 44m  CVIOLETBG     33 45m  CBEIGEBG      33 46m  CWHITEBG      33 47m   CGREY        33 90m  CRED2        33 91m  CGREEN2      33 92m  CYELLOW2     33 93m  CBLUE2       33 94m  CVIOLET2     33 95m  CBEIGE2      33 96m  CWHITE2      33 97m   CGREYBG        33 100m  CREDBG2        33 101m  CGREENBG2      33 102m  CYELLOWBG2     33 103m  CBLUEBG2       33 104m  CVIOLETBG2     33 105m  CBEIGEBG2      33 106m  CWHITEBG2      33 107m   Here is the code to generate the test  x   0 for i in range 24     colors    quot  quot    for j in range 5       code   str x j      colors   colors    quot  33  quot    code    quot m  33  quot    code    quot m 033 0m  quot    print colors    x   x   5

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An easier option would be to use the cprint function from the termcolor package   It also supports  s   d format of printing

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You could use Clint  from clint textui import colored print colored red  some warning message   print colored green  nicely done

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You can use the Python implementation of the curses library  curses     Terminal handling for character-cell displays Also  run this and you ll find your box  for i in range 255       print i  chr i

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I generated a class with all the colors using a for loop to iterate every combination of color up to 100  and then wrote a class with Python colors  Copy and paste as you will  GPLv2 by me  class colors         Colors class      Reset all colors with colors reset     Two subclasses fg for foreground and bg for background      Use as colors subclass colorname      i e  colors fg red or colors bg green     Also  the generic bold  disable  underline  reverse  strikethrough      and invisible work with the main class     i e  colors bold             reset   033 0m      bold   033 01m      disable   033 02m      underline   033 04m      reverse   033 07m      strikethrough   033 09m      invisible   033 08m      class fg          black   033 30m          red   033 31m          green   033 32m          orange   033 33m          blue   033 34m          purple   033 35m          cyan   033 36m          lightgrey   033 37m          darkgrey   033 90m          lightred   033 91m          lightgreen   033 92m          yellow   033 93m          lightblue   033 94m          pink   033 95m          lightcyan   033 96m      class bg          black   033 40m          red   033 41m          green   033 42m          orange   033 43m          blue   033 44m          purple   033 45m          cyan   033 46m          lightgrey   033 47m

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Here s a curses example  import curses  def main stdscr       stdscr clear       if curses has colors            for i in xrange 1  curses COLORS               curses init pair i  i  curses COLOR BLACK              stdscr addstr  quot COLOR  d   quot    i  curses color pair i               stdscr addstr  quot BOLD   quot   curses color pair i    curses A BOLD              stdscr addstr  quot STANDOUT   quot   curses color pair i    curses A STANDOUT              stdscr addstr  quot UNDERLINE   quot   curses color pair i    curses A UNDERLINE              stdscr addstr  quot BLINK   quot   curses color pair i    curses A BLINK              stdscr addstr  quot DIM   quot   curses color pair i    curses A DIM              stdscr addstr  quot REVERSE   quot   curses color pair i    curses A REVERSE      stdscr refresh       stdscr getch    if   name         main         print  quot init    quot      curses wrapper main

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I have wrapped joeld s answer into a module with global functions that I can use anywhere in my code  File  log py def enable        HEADER     033 95m      OKBLUE     033 94m      OKGREEN     033 92m      WARNING     033 93m      FAIL     033 91m      ENDC     033 0m      BOLD    quot  033 1m quot   def disable        HEADER          OKBLUE          OKGREEN          WARNING          FAIL          ENDC       def infog msg       print OKGREEN   msg   ENDC   def info msg       print OKBLUE   msg   ENDC   def warn msg       print WARNING   msg   ENDC   def err msg       print FAIL   msg   ENDC   enable    Use as follows  import log log info  quot Hello  World  quot   log err  quot System Error quot

[python] How to print colored text to the terminal?

Emoji

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