Style your commandline output from python scripts

1. Embed XML-like tags into a string, for example "This is <green>an example</green>."
2. The recognized tags will be converted to escaped ANSI/VT100 control sequences.
   They look like this: "This is \x1b[32man example\x1b[39m.". If you print() this it'll turn into color.

import shellcolors

# basic
raw = "some <green>string</green> with <red><bold>styling</bold></red>"
styled = shellcolors.compile(raw)
print(styled)

# style an entire string
styled = shellcolors.style("yellow", "bold", "This string will be yellow and bold.")
print(styled)

# style/compile a string and print it directly
shellcolors.cprint("some <green>string</green> with <red><bold>styling</bold></red>")
shellcolors.sprint("yellow", "bold", "This string will be yellow and bold.")

# all colors and styles are available as a function
print(shellcolors.blue("This string will be blue"))

On my urxvt terminal the output of the above looks like this:

• Python 3 (does not work with Python 2.7)
• A terminal that supports ANSI/VT100 Control sequences. See this excellent compatibility table.

All styles available through ANSI/VT100 Control sequences can be used, including a few non-standard ones that are commonly supported by terminal emulators.

• Colors:
  • default
  • black, dark_grey, light_grey, white
  • red, green, yellow, blue, purple, cyan
  • light_red, light_green, light_yellow, light_blue, light_purple, light_cyan
• Background colors: Same as foreground with a bg_ prefix (e.g. bg_dark_grey)
• Styles: (some with aliases)
  • bold = bright = b = strong
  • italic = i = em
  • underline = underlined = u
  • strikethrough = s
  • invert = reverse
  • dim
  • hidden
  • blink (please don't use it…)