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| 1 | Blessed is an easy, practical library for making terminal apps, by providing an | | 1 | Makes ANSI escape character sequences for producing colored terminal text and |
| 2 | elegant, well-documented interface to Colors, Keyboard input, and screen | | 2 | cursor positioning work under MS Windows. |
| 3 | position and Location capabilities. | | 3 | |
| | | 4 | ANSI escape character sequences have long been used to produce colored terminal |
| | | 5 | text and cursor positioning on Unix and Macs. Colorama makes this work on |
| | | 6 | Windows, too, by wrapping stdout, stripping ANSI sequences it finds (which |
| | | 7 | otherwise show up as gobbledygook in your output), and converting them into the |
| | | 8 | appropriate win32 calls to modify the state of the terminal. On other platforms, |
| | | 9 | Colorama does nothing. |
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| | | 11 | Colorama also provides some shortcuts to help generate ANSI sequences but works |
| | | 12 | fine in conjunction with any other ANSI sequence generation library, such as |
| | | 13 | Termcolor. |