Console colour text¶
Mark Williams
To make some of your text more readable, you can use ANSI escape codes to change the colour of the text output in your python program. A good use case for this is to to highlight errors.
The escape codes are entered right into the print statement.
print("\033[1;32;40m Bright Green \n") print('\033[94m' + item['text'] + '\033[0m')
4-bit Colours¶
Font Effects¶
| Code | Effect | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Reset / Normal | all attributes off |
| 1 | Bold or increased intensity | |
| 2 | Faint (decreased intensity) | Not widely supported. |
| 3 | Italic | Not widely supported. Sometimes treated as inverse. |
| 4 | Underline | |
| 5 | Slow Blink | less than 150 per minute |
| 6 | Rapid Blink | MS-DOS ANSI.SYS; 150+ per minute; not widely supported |
| 7 | [[reverse video]] | swap foreground and background colors |
| 8 | Conceal | Not widely supported. |
| 9 | Crossed-out | Characters legible, but marked for deletion. Not widely supported. |
| 10 | Primary(default) font | |
| 11–19 | Alternate font | Select alternate font n-10 |
| 20 | Fraktur | hardly ever supported |
| 21 | Bold off or Double Underline | Bold off not widely supported; double underline hardly ever supported. |
| 22 | Normal color or intensity | Neither bold nor faint |
| 23 | Not italic, not Fraktur | |
| 24 | Underline off | Not singly or doubly underlined |
| 25 | Blink off | |
| 27 | Inverse off | |
| 28 | Reveal | conceal off |
| 29 | Not crossed out | |
| 30–37 | Set foreground color | See color table below |
| 38 | Set foreground color | Next arguments are 5;n or 2;r;g;b, see below |
| 39 | Default foreground color | implementation defined (according to standard) |
| 40–47 | Set background color | See color table below |
| 48 | Set background color | Next arguments are 5;n or 2;r;g;b, see below |
| 49 | Default background color | implementation defined (according to standard) |
| 51 | Framed | |
| 52 | Encircled | |
| 53 | Overlined | |
| 54 | Not framed or encircled | |
| 55 | Not overlined | |
| 60 | ideogram underline | hardly ever supported |
| 61 | ideogram double underline | hardly ever supported |
| 62 | ideogram overline | hardly ever supported |
| 63 | ideogram double overline | hardly ever supported |
| 64 | ideogram stress marking | hardly ever supported |
| 65 | ideogram attributes off | reset the effects of all of 60-64 |
| 90–97 | Set bright foreground color | aixterm (not in standard) |
| 100–107 | Set bright background color | aixterm (not in standard) |