colout | Color text streams with a polished command line interface | Command Line Interface library

colout is a Python library typically used in Utilities, Command Line Interface applications. colout has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

colout read lines of text stream on the standard input and output characters matching a given regular expression PATTERN in given COLOR and STYLE. If groups are specified in the regular expression pattern, only them are taken into account, else the whole matching pattern is colored. You can specify several colors or styles when using groups by separating them with commas. If you indicate more colors than groups, the last ones will be ignored. If you ask for fewer colors, the last one will be duplicated across remaining groups. Available colors are: blue, black, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, white, red, rainbow, random, Random, Spectrum, spectrum, scale, Scale, hash, Hash, none, an RGB hexadecimal triplet (#11aaff, for example) or any number between 0 and 255. Available styles are: normal, bold, faint, italic, underline, blink, rapid\_blink, reverse, conceal or random (some styles may have no effect, depending on your terminal). In some case, you can indicate a foreground and a background color, by indicating boths colors separated by a period(for example: red.blue). You can also use this system to combine two styles (for example, for a bold style that also blinks: bold.blink). rainbow will cycle over a the default colormap at each matching pattern. Rainbow will do the same over the default colormap for the 256-colors mode (this requires a terminal that supports the 256 color escape sequences). Random will color each matching pattern with a random color among the default colormap (the 255 available in the ANSI table, by default). random will do the same in 8 colors mode. spectrum and Spectrum are like rainbows, but with more colors (8 and 36 colors). scale (8 colors) and Scale (256 colors) will parse the numbers characters in the matching text as a decimal number and apply the default colormap according to its position on the scale defined by the -l option (see below, "0,100" by default). hash (8 colors) and Hash (256 colors) will take a fingerprint of the matching text and apply the default colormap according to it. This ensure that matching texts appearing several times will always get the same color. Before interpreting the matched string as a number, colout will remove any character not supposed to be used to write down numbers. This permits to apply this special color on a large group, while interpreting only its numerical part. You can use the name of a syntax-coloring ["lexer"] as a color (for example: "Cpp", "ruby", "xml+django", etc.). If GIMP palettes files (\*.gpl) are available, you can also use their names as a colormap (see the -P switch below). Note that the RGB colors (either the hex triplets or the palettes’s colors) will be converted to their nearest ANSI 256 color mode equivalents. When not specified, a COLOR defaults to red and a STYLE defaults to bold. colout comes with some predefined themes to rapidly color well-known outputs (see the -t switch below). colout can be used as an interface to pygments (see also the --source switch below). To have a list of all colors, styles, special colormaps, themes, palettes and lexers, use the -r switch (see below). colout is released under the GNU Public License v3.