In my previous post, I wrote about a tool I wanted to create to print ANSI color codes to the console. I currently need a this as I am "prettifying" my shell prompt at the moment and figured it would just be faster to leverage this tool over Googling the necessary shell codes.
So I created acolor, an open-source Python utility built on top of colorist to provide a convient way to output ANSI color codes to the terminal. Currently, only named color codes are supported (e.g., red, green, blue). Hex, HSL, VGA, and RGB color codes are currently not supported but acolor can easily be extended to include them.
You can view the source code here. You can install it with pipx via:
pipx install git https://github.com/NicholasSynovic/acolor
Here are the current command line options of the applicaton:
acolor --help Usage: acolor [OPTIONS] Options: -c, --color TEXT Color name to generate ANSI code -r, --reset Print ANSI reset code --help Show this message and exit.
Here's an example usage:
$ acolor --color red '\x1b[31m' $ acolor --reset '\x1b[0m' $ acolor --color test test is not a valid color: dict_keys(['BLACK', 'RED', 'GREEN', 'YELLOW', 'BLUE', 'MAGENTA', 'CYAN', 'WHITE'])
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