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Clint, Command Line Library for Python

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Something about the colored.red(txt) syntax bothers me.

Shouldn't color should really be a parameter - unless the console only accepts a fixed set of colors?

I like the rest of it - using a 'with' block for indentation is clever.

Yes, I've seen a bunch of shell and perl utilities that use this approach. You can't use them when you want 256 colors. You can check http://cbouvi.free.fr/download/colorize/ and http://code.google.com/p/ansi-color/.

Ruby has highline and colored, and perhaps some more too.

There's an experimental branch with 256 support. Fallback isn't simple though.

Well, there's nothing wrong with providing a shortcut, although personally I would have preferred a closure:

    printred = colored.print_function("red")
    printred("This prints in red")

Wouldn't this work? I can't test it at the moment.

    print_function = lambda c:  getattr(colored, c)
    printred = colored.print_function("red")
    printred("This prints in red")

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor

print colored('Hello, World!', 'red')

Looks to me like colored.red(string) just calls ColoredString(color, string), so you could use that version if you want to parameterize the color argument.

    print ColoredString("red", "some text")

    from clint.textui.color import red, blue, green

    print "{0}, {1}, and {2}".format(red('red'), blue('blue'), green('green'))

Just released for Python 3 as well.

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