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Colored Output

Spice up your script's output with some color! Implements both the basic ANSI-16 color scheme, and rgb

Note

When stdout does not look like a terminal, arc will automagically remove the color escape codes, so no need for you to worry about anything!

arc.color.fg

Contains the code for coloring text elements.

Constants

  • BLACK
  • GREY
  • RED
  • GREEN
  • YELLOW
  • BLUE
  • MAGENTA
  • CYAN
  • WHITE
  • BRIGHT_RED
  • BRIGHT_GREEN
  • BRIGHT_YELLOW
  • BRIGHT_BLUE
  • BRIGHT_MAGENTA
  • BRIGHT_CYAN
  • BRIGHT_WHITE
  • ARC_BLUE

fg.rgb(red: int, green: int, blue: int)

Used to create any text color in the full RGB specturm. Each parameter's values range from [0, 255]

fg.hex(hex_code: str | int)

Used to create a color using a hex code instead of the RGB values. Can be passed the hex code as a string ('#fff', '#333') or as a number using Python's hex shorthand (0xfff, 0x333)

arc.color.bg

Contains the code for coloring the background of elements.

Constants

  • BLACK
  • GREY
  • RED
  • GREEN
  • YELLOW
  • BLUE
  • MAGENTA
  • CYAN
  • WHITE
  • BRIGHT_RED
  • BRIGHT_GREEN
  • BRIGHT_YELLOW
  • BRIGHT_BLUE
  • BRIGHT_MAGENTA
  • BRIGHT_CYAN
  • BRIGHT_WHITE
  • ARC_BLUE

bg.rgb(red: int, green: int, blue: int)

Used to create any background color in the full RGB specturm. Each parameter's values range from [0, 255]

bg.hex(hex_code: str | int)

Used to create a color using a hex code instead of the RGB values. Can be passed the hex code as a string ('#fff', '#333') or as a number using Python's hex shorthand (0xfff, 0x333)

arc.color.effects

Other visual effects that can be applied to text output

Constants:

  • CLEAR
  • BOLD
  • ITALIC
  • UNDERLINE
  • STRIKETHROUGH

arc.color.colorize(string: str, *codes: str | Ansi, clear: bool = True)

colorize() applies an arbitrary number of colors / effects to the provided string, and adds effects.CLEAR to the end of the string. 

from arc.color import colorize, fg, bg, effects
print(colorize('This is a colored string', fg.RED, bg.GREY, effects.UNDERLINE))
Output