ansi-colors – Tarik Billa

Getting correct string length in Python for strings with ANSI color codes

April 7, 2024 by Tarik

The pyparsing wiki includes this helpful expression for matching on ANSI escape sequences: ESC = Literal(‘\x1b’) integer = Word(nums) escapeSeq = Combine(ESC + ‘[‘ + Optional(delimitedList(integer,’;’)) + oneOf(list(alphas))) Here’s how to make this into an escape-sequence-stripper: from pyparsing import * ESC = Literal(‘\x1b’) integer = Word(nums) escapeSeq = Combine(ESC + ‘[‘ + Optional(delimitedList(integer,’;’)) + oneOf(list(alphas))) … Read more

Is there an easy way to COLOR-CODE the compiler outputs?

July 29, 2023 by Tarik

Gcc 4.9 seems to have added this feature via the -fdiagnostics-color flag:

print() to console log with color

July 23, 2023 by Tarik

Xcode doesn’t support console coloring since Xcode 8. But Since Xcode is fully unicode compatible, you can use emojis instead! for example you can use You can use ⚠️ for warning messages and 🛑 for error messages. (like the Xcode itself) Or simply use these note books as a color: 📕: error message 📙: warning … Read more

ANSI Color Codes in VIM

May 6, 2023 by Tarik

I’m not sure about vim, but if you’re just viewing a log file (ie you don’t need to be able to edit) you could use less: less -R

How to use the ANSIcolor plugin in Jenkins?

May 4, 2023 by Tarik

How do I print colored text to the terminal?

August 23, 2022 by Tarik

This somewhat depends on what platform you are on. The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences. For a simple example, here’s some Python code from the Blender build scripts: class bcolors: HEADER = ‘\033[95m’ OKBLUE = ‘\033[94m’ OKCYAN = ‘\033[96m’ OKGREEN = ‘\033[92m’ WARNING = ‘\033[93m’ FAIL = ‘\033[91m’ … Read more