Color Support

New in version 1.2.1.

Module to help display color on the command line of ANSI-compliant termainals.

..versionadded:: 1.2.1

lsl.common.color.colorfy(text)

Given a string encoded with color and/or style information, return a string with embedded ANSI terminal codes. For example: {{%red text}} {{%underline underline}} will return the text ‘text underline’ with ‘text’ displayed as red and ‘underline’ underlined.

Valid colors are:

• black

• red

• green

• yellow

• blue

• magenta

• cyan

• white

Valid type styles are:

• bold

• underline

• blink

• reverse

Note

Background colors can be set by appending ‘bkg-‘ to the color name.