How To Change Text Color In Python

Print Colors in Python terminal

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

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

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

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

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

class colors:

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

def print_format_table():

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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