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Hello wor ld!

I am again turning to the community forum for help... I have been doing a project at my school in which I have to make a maths game. There is no limit as to how complex I need to get it, I just need to be able to understand it. I have been trying to add colour to the text output in my print statements. I have visited my school ICT department, but none of them knew how to code python... They despise it, ever since the school server was accessed. Anyway, I asked them to install a library called termcolor.

Here is what I tried to do without the correct library:

from termcolor import colored
print(colored("red", "red"))
print(colored("yellow", "yellow"))
print(colored("green", "green"))
print(colored("blue", "blue"))

Basically almost anything to do with instaling something is a no go...

Any help is much apreciated.

Kindregarde,
a random kid

Quote:They despise it, ever since the school server was accessed.

perhaps it was because of python that they discovered a leak that had obviously been
there all along!

You can do it yourself.

black = lambda text: '\033[0;30m' + text + '\033[0m'
red = lambda text: '\033[0;31m' + text + '\033[0m'
green = lambda text: '\033[0;32m' + text + '\033[0m'
yellow = lambda text: '\033[0;33m' + text + '\033[0m'
blue = lambda text: '\033[0;34m' + text + '\033[0m'
magenta = lambda text: '\033[0;35m' + text + '\033[0m'
cyan = lambda text: '\033[0;36m' + text + '\033[0m'
white = lambda text: '\033[0;37m' + text + '\033[0m'

# test
print('Eggs and spam')
print(red('Red eggs') + ' and spam')

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

I am not sure if this will work on Windows

If the admins don't want to install termcolor, you can perhaps install it for you alone by typing

python -m pip install --user termcolor

in a terminal (or cmd window). You may need to use 'python3' instead of 'python' depending on your system.

You can even do it from python's console

>>> import subprocess as sp
>>> import sys
>>> sp.call([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--user', 'termcolor'])