A simple function to change the background/foreground color of characters written to a Windows console (command line). Requires ctypes, which is included with Python version 2.5 or later.
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# for information on Windows APIs.
STD_INPUT_HANDLE = -10
STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE= -11
STD_ERROR_HANDLE = -12
FOREGROUND_BLUE = 0x01 # text color contains blue.
FOREGROUND_GREEN= 0x02 # text color contains green.
FOREGROUND_RED = 0x04 # text color contains red.
FOREGROUND_INTENSITY = 0x08 # text color is intensified.
BACKGROUND_BLUE = 0x10 # background color contains blue.
BACKGROUND_GREEN= 0x20 # background color contains green.
BACKGROUND_RED = 0x40 # background color contains red.
BACKGROUND_INTENSITY = 0x80 # background color is intensified.
import ctypes
std_out_handle = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
def set_color(color, handle=std_out_handle):
"""(color) -> BOOL
Example: set_color(FOREGROUND_GREEN | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY)
"""
bool = ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetConsoleTextAttribute(handle, color)
return bool
# set_color
# win_console.py
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See link for information on the two Windows APIs called by this code.
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For platforms with ANSI color, one can use ANSI escapes.
This help me a lot!,but is any one know how to use termcolor package (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor/0.1) on windows?