Python: How to print the value of variable in color

Question

I am aware of printing the statements in color. Eg:

"\033[34mHow are you ? \033[0m" -> This will print the statement in blue color.

But what if the string is stored in a variable, and then I need to print the value of the variable in color.

string= "How are you?"

print string

In the above case, I need when the value of string is printed, the output is in blue color.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-with-colors-using-python gives a variety of options. — andrew cooke, Aug 20 '11 at 00:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '11 at 00:49

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You could just concat the colour sections of the String together when printing your string like so:

string = "How are you?" 
print "\033[34m" + string + "\033[0m"

answered Aug 20 '11 at 00:49

Suhail Patel

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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You could use formated strings (old-style) like:

colors = {'reset':'\033[0m', 'blue':'\033[34m'}
person = 'you'
formattext = 'How are %s%s%s' %(colors['blue'], person, colors['reset'])

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

Community

answered Dec 20 '11 at 17:57

Don Question

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '20 at 15:12

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import os
os.system("")
message='How are you?'
print('\033[0;32m'+message+'\033[0m')

Output:

How are you? (it will be print in green color)

answered Feb 25 '20 at 15:12

Izaz

But this answer essentially reiterates what has already been said (not to mention the `os.system()` step seems rather arbitrary. – Ondrej K. Feb 25 '20 at 15:33

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