Print Colors in Python terminal

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Last Updated : 27 May, 2021

There are several methods to output colored text to the terminal, in Python. The most common ways to do are:

Using built-in modules

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‘colorama’ module: Cross-platform printing of colored text can then be done using Colorama’s constant shorthand for ANSI escape sequences:

Example 1:

Python

# Python program to print
# red text with green background
 
from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
print(Fore.RED + 'some red text')
print(Back.GREEN + 'and with a green background')
print(Style.DIM + 'and in dim text')
print(Style.RESET_ALL)
print('back to normal now')

Output:

Example 2:

Python

# Python program to print
# green text with red background
 
from colorama import init
from termcolor import colored
 
init()
 
print(colored('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red'))

Output:

‘termcolor’ module: termcolor is a python module for ANSII Color formatting for output in the terminal.

Python

# Python program to print
# colored text and background
import sys
from termcolor import colored, cprint
 
text = colored('Hello, World!', 'red', attrs=['reverse', 'blink'])
print(text)
cprint('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red')
 
print_red_on_cyan = lambda x: cprint(x, 'red', 'on_cyan')
print_red_on_cyan('Hello, World!')
print_red_on_cyan('Hello, Universe!')
 
for i in range(10):
    cprint(i, 'magenta', end=' ')
 
cprint("Attention!", 'red', attrs=['bold'], file=sys.stderr)

Output:

Using ANSI Escape Codes

The most common way to print colored text is by printing ANSI escape sequences directly. This can be delivered in different formats such as:

Build Functions to call : We can build functions to call particular color named functions to execute the relevant ANSI Escape Sequence.

Python

# Python program to print
# colored text and background
def prRed(skk): print("\033[91m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prGreen(skk): print("\033[92m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prYellow(skk): print("\033[93m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prLightPurple(skk): print("\033[94m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prPurple(skk): print("\033[95m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prCyan(skk): print("\033[96m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prLightGray(skk): print("\033[97m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
def prBlack(skk): print("\033[98m {}\033[00m" .format(skk))
 
prCyan("Hello World, ")
prYellow("It's")
prGreen("Geeks")
prRed("For")
prGreen("Geeks")

Output:

Build a class of colors: Create a class to allot background and foreground colors and call them.

Python

# Python program to print
# colored text and background
class colors:
'''Colors class:reset all colors with colors.reset; two
sub classes fg for foreground
and bg for background; use as colors.subclass.colorname.
i.e. colors.fg.red or colors.bg.greenalso, the generic bold, disable,
underline, reverse, strike through,
and invisible work with the main class i.e. colors.bold'''
    reset='\033[0m'
    bold='\033[01m'
    disable='\033[02m'
    underline='\033[04m'
    reverse='\033[07m'
    strikethrough='\033[09m'
    invisible='\033[08m'
    class fg:
        black='\033[30m'
        red='\033[31m'
        green='\033[32m'
        orange='\033[33m'
        blue='\033[34m'
        purple='\033[35m'
        cyan='\033[36m'
        lightgrey='\033[37m'
        darkgrey='\033[90m'
        lightred='\033[91m'
        lightgreen='\033[92m'
        yellow='\033[93m'
        lightblue='\033[94m'
        pink='\033[95m'
        lightcyan='\033[96m'
    class bg:
        black='\033[40m'
        red='\033[41m'
        green='\033[42m'
        orange='\033[43m'
        blue='\033[44m'
        purple='\033[45m'
        cyan='\033[46m'
        lightgrey='\033[47m'
 
print(colors.bg.green, "SKk", colors.fg.red, "Amartya")
print(colors.bg.lightgrey, "SKk", colors.fg.red, "Amartya")

Output:

Iterating functions: We can design iterating & self-generating ANSI Escape sequence, functions.

Python

# Python program to print
# colored text and background
def print_format_table():
    """
    prints table of formatted text format options
    """
    for style in range(8):
        for fg in range(30, 38):
            s1 = ''
            for bg in range(40, 48):
                format = ';'.join([str(style), str(fg), str(bg)])
                s1 += '\x1b[%sm %s \x1b[0m' % (format, format)
            print(s1)
        print('\n')
 
print_format_table()

Output:

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