Pastel: Bring colors to your terminal

Pastel is a simple library to help you colorize strings in your terminal.

It comes bundled with predefined styles:

• info: green
• comment: yellow
• question: black on cyan
• error: white on red

Features

• Use predefined styles or add you own.
• Disable colors all together by calling with_colors(False).
• Automatically disables colors if the output is not a TTY.
• Used in cleo.
• Supports Python 2.7+, 3.5+ and PyPy.

Usage

>>> import pastel
>>> print(pastel.colorize('<info>Information</info>'))
'Information'  # Green string by default
>>> print(pastel.colorize('<fg=red;options=bold>This is bold red</>'))
'This is bold red'

Installation

pip install pastel