is it possible to add colors to python output

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so i made a small password strength tester for me  my friends and my family  as seen here   import re strength     You didnt type anything   Terrible   weak sause   avarage   Good    Very Strong    THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE   score   1 password  raw input  please type in the password you would like rated      if len password   lt  1        print strength 0  if len password   gt  1 and len password  lt  4        print strength 1  else      print     if len password   gt  7      score  1     print  password was made stronger by not being short  else      print  Your password is really short  concider making it longer   if len  password   gt  10      score  1     print  password was made stronger by long  else      print  An even longer password would make it stronger   if re search   a-z   password  and re search   A-Z    password       score  1     print  password was made stronger by having upper  amp  lower case letters  else      print  Indlucing both upper and lower case letters will make your password stronger   if re search   0-9     password       score  1     print  Password was made stronger by using numbers  else      print  Using numbers will make your password stronger   if re search                  amp          -          password       score  1     print  Password was made stronger by using punctuation marks and characters  else      print  Using punctuation marks and characters will make the password stronger   print   n final password rating is   print strength score    what i was hoping to do is   1st - add color to the comments i ve given the user about the content of their password  good comments such as the   password was made stronger by using numbers  will have a green output  while constructive feedback such as the  using numbers will make your password stronger  will have a red output  making it easier for the user to spot the pros and cons of his password  2nd - i was wondering  if it works the same  can i color certain items in my above  strength  list  making the first two red  the middle pair yellow and the last pair green   ty

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If your console  like your standard ubuntu console  understands ANSI color codes  you can use those   Here an example   print   This is  x1b 31mred x1b 0m

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IDLE s console does not support ANSI escape sequences  or any other form of escapes for coloring your output   You can learn how to talk to IDLE s console directly instead of just treating it like normal stdout and printing to it  which is how it does things like color-coding your syntax   but that s pretty complicated  The idle documentation just tells you the basics of using IDLE itself  and its idlelib library has no documentation  well  there is a single line of documentation     New in 2 3  Support library for the IDLE development environment     if you know where to find it  but that isn t very helpful   So  you need to either read the source  or do a whole lot of trial and error  to even get started     Alternatively  you can run your script from the command line instead of from IDLE  in which case you can use whatever escape sequences your terminal handles  Most modern terminals will handle at least basic 16 8-color ANSI  Many will handle 16 16  or the expanded xterm-256 color sequences  or even full 24-bit colors   I believe gnome-terminal is the default for Ubuntu  and in its default configuration it will handle xterm-256  but that s really a question for SuperUser or AskUbuntu    Learning to read the termcap entries to know which codes to enter is complicated    but if you only care about a single console   or are willing to just assume  almost everything handles basic 16 8-color ANSI  and anything that doesn t  I don t care about   you can ignore that part and just hardcode them based on  e g   this page   Once you know what you want to emit  it s just a matter of putting the codes in the strings before printing them   But there are libraries that can make this all easier for you  One really nice library  which comes built in with Python  is curses  This lets you take over the terminal and do a full-screen GUI  with colors and spinning cursors and anything else you want  It is a little heavy-weight for simple uses  of course  Other libraries can be found by searching PyPI  as usual

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being overwhelmed by being VERY NEW to python i missed some very simple and useful commands given here  Print in terminal with colors using Python  -  eventually decided to use CLINT as an answer that was given there by great and smart people

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