Hack #1: Color Text in Your Terminal
You can change the colors of text shown in your Python terminal console using ANSI escape character sequences! Or you can use the colorama library to make the process a bit easier and more streamlined. Colorama works across all the platforms i.e. Windows, Mac OS and Unix.
First, we import the modules that we need from colorama.
from colorama import Fore, Back, Style Next, we can specify the foreground and background colors of any text. We can combine the effects by using a plus sign with the Fore, Back and/or Style modules.
Here are all of the options for foreground and background colors and styles of text printed to the console.
Fore: BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, RESET. Back: BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, RESET. Style: DIM, NORMAL, BRIGHT, RESET_ALL
Alternatively, we could use the cprint function from the termcolor library to print colored text. The syntax is a bit easier to use.
Hack #2: Format Text in Your Terminal
The Pyfiglet package renders ASCII text in various ASCII art fonts and colors. This is a nice way to spruce up any text that you need to output to the console e.g. to indicate the start of a scientific computation pipeline.
Here are some examples:
You can check out more Pyfiglet fonts and examples.