Read the current text color in a xterm

Question

I\'m writing various utilities, and I\'m really liking colorized text. Nothing fancy, just using escape sequences. I\'ve created a simple class that has a pprint(msg, color) fun

Answer 1

RED = 31
GREEN = 32
ESCAPE = '%s[' % chr(27)
RESET = '%s0m' % ESCAPE
FORMAT = '1;%dm'

def colorize(text, color):
    return ESCAPE + (FORMAT % (color, )) + text + RESET

This function will return a string that will print colorized, with the terminal automatically being reset afterwards.