a python package that lets you add custom colors and text formatting to your scripts in a very easy way!

Last update: Dec 14, 2022

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Overview

colormate

Python script text formatting package

What is colormate?

colormate is a python library that lets you add text formatting to your scripts, its very easy to use, you can also use hex colors (for example: "#ffffff"), rgb tuples (for example: (255, 255, 255) ), or you can use the name of the color (for example: 'White')

Platform availability

This package will only work on (gnu)linux and macOSX systems, thats because this script uses ansi escapes that only works on these systems, and this script requires a true color compatible terminal, so you can get the rgb colors working. If you don't have a true color compatible terminal, you can use the colors by their names, like 'White', 'Yellow', etc. If you want to get a full list of colors, you can use self.get_colors() method, which will return a list with all the available colors

Installaton

pip install colormate

Usage

import colormate

mythemeobject = colormate.Theme()

## Get documentation
mythemeobject.__doc__

## Colorize method
mythemeobject.colorize(
    'This text has beautiful colors!',
    fg = '#ff00ff',
    bg = '#000000'
)
# fg and bg arguments are both optional, you can add a background color
# without setting a foreground color first and vice versa

You can also use color names

obj = colormate.Theme()
print(
    'My colorized text is', 
    obj.colorize(
        'this', 
        fg = 'Blue',
        bg = 'Black'    
    )
)

As you can see, if you use the color names directly, it will use the colors associated to your terminal, contrary to when you set the colors directly with a rgb color

You can also use an rgb tuple

print(
    'My colorized text is', 
    obj.colorize(
        'this', 
        fg = (0, 0, 255),
        bg = (0, 0, 0)  
    )
)

Text formatting

These are the available formmating methods

from colormate import Theme
Theme().bold           ("This will return a bold string!")  
Theme().dim            ("This will return a dim string!") 
Theme().italic         ("This will return an italic string!") 
Theme().underlined     ("This will return an underlined string!") 
Theme().blinking       ("This method [is useless]") 
Theme().reversed       ("This will reverse background and foreground colors") 
Theme().invisible      ("This method will return an invisible string so [it is also useless]")

License

MIT LICENSE

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