Module ansi

Module containing ANSI escape sequences and helper functions for colour terminal output.

Functions

bool enable_control_chars(stream=1)
Helper function for determining if control characters should be printed to the IO streams.

Variables

relax_prompt = '\x1b[94m'

relax_error = '\x1b[31m'

relax_warning = '\x1b[33m'

script = '\x1b[36m'

end = '\x1b[0m'

__package__ = None
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Imports: ctypes, sys

Function Details

enable_control_chars(stream=1)

Helper function for determining if control characters should be printed to the IO streams.

This uses both the sys.std*.isatty() methods as well as the operating system. Control characters are only shown on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X (or technically they are disabled on MS Windows as both cmd and the PowerShell do not support the ANSI characters).

Parameters:

• stream (int) - The stream to check. The value of 0 corresponds to STDIN, 1 corresponds to STDOUT, and 2 corresponds to STDERR.

Returns: bool

The answer of whether color and other control characters should be printed.