How to print colour/color in python?

Question

New to both Python and StackOverflow, I\'d like a little help. I\'d like to print color in Python and have Googled but with little luck :( I\'ve been confused each time and

Answer 1

If you want to print to a terminal in color you have to use escape codes for the terminal you're using. For unix/linux systems you can use the curses module - or just use bash color codes directly as a part of your output string. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this in windows according to this question.

Answer 2

If you just want a really simply and straightforward way to print ansi colors in the terminal you can check out the ansicolor package module:

Install via pip

$ pip install ansicolors

Usage snippet

from colors import red, green, blue
print red('This is red')
print green('This is green')
print blue('This is blue')

from colors import color
for i in range(256):
    print color('Color #%d' % i, fg=i)

Note about pip

pip is a python package manager. If you don't have pip installed, you can install it with easy_install pip

If you then find you don't have easy_install, then download this: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and do:

python ez_setup.py
easy_install pip

Colors for windows command shell

The above ansi colors will not work for you in a windows command shell. Try looking at this activestate code snippet