On SourceForge you will find release 1.12 of my Python readline module. If you don't want to hack the colors, there is no reason to upgrade from 1.11 to 1.12. They *should* work the same.
But if you'd like to hack the iPython colors this new version makes it possible. In your ipythonrc file add a line like: execfile hackcolors.py Now in hackcolors.py you can change colors and backgrounds like this: ####hackcolors.py#### import readline # reach deep into the bowels of readline to get the color table escape_to_color = readline.rl.console.escape_to_color # change a color escape_to_color['0;32'] = 0x72 del escape_to_color del readline ################# The two hex digits are the background and foreground color respectively. In the example above I'm setting the color to green on a grey background. Here is the table that is normally used to translate colors. escape_to_color = { '0;30': 0x0, #black '0;31': 0x4, #red '0;32': 0x2, #green '0;33': 0x4+0x2, #brown? '0;34': 0x1, #blue '0;35': 0x1+0x4, #purple '0;36': 0x2+0x4, #cyan '0;37': 0x1+0x2+0x4, #grey '1;30': 0x1+0x2+0x4, #dark gray '1;31': 0x4+0x8, #red '1;32': 0x2+0x8, #light green '1;33': 0x4+0x2+0x8, #yellow '1;34': 0x1+0x8, #light blue '1;35': 0x1+0x4+0x8, #light purple '1;36': 0x1+0x2+0x8, #light cyan '1;37': 0x1+0x2+0x4+0x8, #white '0': None, } An interested party should be able to arbitrarily map colors and their backgrounds. Enjoy, gb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list