Colours in the command prompt!

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December 16th, 2012, 07:01 AM

Ploppz

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Colours in the command prompt!

Hey.
I need to change the color of one word when I run my program in the command prompt (i.e. run it by double clicking on the .py file)
I searched and found this function. (a little altered for my need)

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 def changeColor(colorID):

    windll.Kernel32.GetStdHandle.restype = c_ulong

    h = windll.Kernel32.GetStdHandle(c_ulong(0xfffffff5))

    windll.Kernel32.SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, colorID)

The thing is, all it can do is change the color of a single line.
Tried this:

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print("I will call it "), end="")

changeColor(4)

print(newName, end="");

changeColor(2)

print("!");

But it would only change the color of the line to 2 and to 4 if I removed the changeColor(2) line. So does anyone know any way to change the color of just one word?

Thanks in advance

December 16th, 2012, 01:17 PM

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http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences.php

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December 17th, 2012, 08:38 AM

Ploppz

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Thank you for your reply! I didn't have time to test it before now and got this

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 Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "D:\~ Programming\Python\PYTHON\Test.py", line 4, in <module>

    import colorama

ImportError: No module named 'colorama'

December 17th, 2012, 08:52 AM

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I take it you didn't bother to search the internet for colorama, nor did you bother to learn about ANSI terminal control sequences.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&tbo=d&qscrl=1&sclient=psy-ab&q=colorama.py&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&qscrl=1&fp=d518ec0f384933bc&bpcl=39967673&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355325884,d.dmQ&biw=949&bih=532

Colours in the command prompt!

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