/culour

Print colored strings in curses windows easily

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culour: color in curses

Print colored strings in curses windows easily

The problem

There's no way to print pre-formatted, colored terminal text into curses. If you're printing '033[94m Blue', which in regular bash terminal is a nice-blue text, in curses, it will be printed as '^[[94m Blue'

Solution

Use culour (pronounced 'cooler') to print the colored strings onto your curses window. Instead of using: `python window.addstr("colored string") ` Simply use; `python import culour culour.addstr(window, "colored string") `

And your string will be added to the screen nice and colored.

To print to a specific place in the screen, use: `python culour.addstr(window, y, x, "colored string") `

Don't forget to initialize the color usage in your curses window by calling `curses.start_color()` immediately after `curses.initscr()`