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Himanshu Bhagwani
Himanshu Bhagwani

Reputation: 76

Print in terminal with colors using python but also want to save output in file but getting unreadable text

I tried terminal color code using python. But I also want to save it in a file but when I tried to that file is having unreadable text. How can I do this both?

BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE = range(8)
def cprint(text, color=WHITE):
    seq = "\x1b[1;%dm" % (30+color) + text + "\x1b[0m"
    sys.stdout.write(seq)

cprint("String", RED)

It will get a red color output in the terminal. But when I save it into a file it got with color code.

Output in the file:

 ^[[1;31mstring^[[0m

Upvotes: 0

Views: 647

Answers (1)

ConorSheehan1
ConorSheehan1

Reputation: 1725

You could append the text to a file every time you call the function

def cprint(text, file, color=WHITE):
    seq = "\x1b[1;%dm" % (30+color) + text + "\x1b[0m"
    sys.stdout.write(seq)
    with open(file, "a",) as f:
       f.write(text)

cprint("String", "/some/file", RED)

Upvotes: 1

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