I am trying to color a string, but it doesn't work I've tried this, but it doesn't work at the cmd window
print '\033[1;32mGreen like Grass\033[1;m'
Could someone tell me why?
In pycharm command window it does work
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edtheprogrammerguy
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Works in my cmd window with Python3. Can you provide more details? – brianpck Oct 03 '16 at 15:59
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Could it be because your terminal doesn't support the escape sequence? – OliPro007 Oct 03 '16 at 16:06
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Maybe [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/39410032/2861476) could provide more information. – MC ND Oct 03 '16 at 16:20
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Further information might be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9420992/colorize-console-output-in-intellij-products – Random Davis Oct 03 '16 at 17:42
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i use windows not linox – user4719989 Oct 04 '16 at 14:12
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im using python 2.7.6 – user4719989 Oct 04 '16 at 15:31
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it is also not working in the idle shell – user4719989 Oct 04 '16 at 15:32
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Just use `fish` shell. – Harsh Prakash Agarwal Oct 21 '22 at 07:51
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It's probably to do with your terminal settings. When I run
python -c "print('\033[1;32mGreen like Grass\033[1;m')"
I get a green string. What value does your TERM environment variable have?
echo $TERM
xterm-256color
On Linux the termcap program handles terminal capabilities. You may just need to match TERM setting to your actual terminal emulator.
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