OK, I (sort of) tried that. Used chr() to avoid issues of which editor and rant the following:
import sys ESC = chr(27) DarkRed = ESC + "[31;2m" ResetColour = ESC + "[0m" print "Initial colour" sys.stdout.write(DarkRed) ; sys.stdout.flush() print "Is this dark red?" sys.stdout.write(ResetColour) ; sys.stdout.flush() print "Final colour" The output (in blue, using IDLE) was: Initial colour [31;2mIs this dark red? [0mFinal colour So, have I missed soemthing? By the way, in the output there is a little square box before the [ in the last two lines. Does the window Idle sets up emulate VT100? Hey ho, but many thanks. My user will just have to strain his eyes. Bill PS Thanks for the URL. Interesting. "TouTaTis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Bill Davy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> To make life easier for my users, I'd like to colour my prompt string >> (as handed to raw_input()) a different colour to that produced by >> print. I'm using Python 2.4.1 and IDLE 1.1.1 on Windows XP. Is it >> possible, and if so, how? >> tia, >> Bill >> >> > > Communicating with a Program > > Say we want the shell to distinguish more clearly, the output of external > programs from the input prompt, the commands, and the shell feedback. We > want the output of external programs to be indented and displayed in a > different colour than the other text. > > Setting the colour of the text is fairly easy using ANSI terminal escape > sequences. For instance, to set the text colour to dark red, write "<Esc> > [31;2m" to the terminal (where <Esc> is the escape code - in emacs use > "C-q ESC" to write <Esc>). We can reset the output colour using "<Esc> > 0m". > > Printing the output of external programs in dark red, we can do using the > execute() function: > > def runCommand(command): > print 'Running:', command > > # set output colour: > sys.stdout.write("<Esc>[31;2m") ; sys.stdout.flush() > > os.system(command) > > # reset output colour > sys.stdout.write("<Esc>[0m") > > (Here we need to flush the stdout file to make sure that the escape code > is written to the terminal before the output of the program) > > http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/scripting2005/lecture-notes/process-management.html > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
