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jepjep40
jepjep40

Reputation: 321

ASCII printing color codes keeps the color

When I use:

print('\27[31mReady!')

Everything else I print keeps the same color. And putting \n after it doesn't do anything. What should this even do? Is there a "\" command to turn back close color codes like this or not?

How do I make the text normal, so everything else I print? I want to make "Ready!" red and everything else back to normal with the easiest tactic (whatever) and maybe if I add another print where it says it should be green then I want that it is green just after the message it should be back to normal.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5879

Answers (2)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54525

When you use

print('\27[31mReady!')

that changes the foreground color. It is one of the standard ECMA-48 control sequences. Most (not all) of the terminals you might use implement the standard SGR 39 as well (reset the foreground color).

print('\27[39mNext!')

Likewise most reset colors (and all other video attributes) on SGR 0 (zero is optional):

print('\27[0mDone!')
print('\27[mDone!')

Reference:

Upvotes: 2

Matthew Curry
Matthew Curry

Reputation: 66

When you are finished using the new color, use \27[0m to reset your colors to the default.

Example:

print('\27[31mReady!\27[0m\n')

Upvotes: 5

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