ubelt.util_colors module

This module defines simple functions to color your text and highlight your code using ANSI escape sequences. This works using the Pygments library, which is an optional requirement. Therefore, these functions only work properly if Pygments is installed, otherwise these functions will return the unmodified text and a warning will be printed.

The highlight_code() function uses pygments to highlight syntax of a programing language.

The color_text() function colors text with a solid color.

Note the functions in this module require the optional pygments library to work correctly. These functions will warn if pygments is not installed.

This module contains a global variable NO_COLOR, which if set to True will force all ANSI text coloring functions to become no-ops. This defaults to the value of the bool(os.environ.get('NO_COLOR')) flag, which is complient with 1.

References

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https://no-color.org/

Note

In the future we may rename this module to util_ansi.

Requirements:

pip install pygments

ubelt.util_colors.highlight_code(text, lexer_name='python', **kwargs)[source]

Highlights a block of text using ANSI tags based on language syntax.

Parameters
  • text (str) – plain text to highlight

  • lexer_name (str) – name of language. eg: python, docker, c++

  • **kwargs – passed to pygments.lexers.get_lexer_by_name

Returns

text - highlighted text If pygments is not installed, the plain text is returned.

Return type

str

Example

>>> import ubelt as ub
>>> text = 'import ubelt as ub; print(ub)'
>>> new_text = ub.highlight_code(text)
>>> print(new_text)
ubelt.util_colors.color_text(text, color)[source]

Colorizes text a single color using ansi tags.

Parameters
  • text (str) – text to colorize

  • color (str) – color code. different systems may have different colors. commonly available colors are: ‘red’, ‘brown’, ‘yellow’, ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘black’, and ‘white’.

Returns

text - colorized text. If pygments is not installed plain text is returned.

Return type

str

Example

>>> text = 'raw text'
>>> import pytest
>>> import ubelt as ub
>>> if ub.modname_to_modpath('pygments'):
>>>     # Colors text only if pygments is installed
>>>     ansi_text = ub.ensure_unicode(color_text(text, 'red'))
>>>     prefix = ub.ensure_unicode('\x1b[31')
>>>     print('prefix = {!r}'.format(prefix))
>>>     print('ansi_text = {!r}'.format(ansi_text))
>>>     assert ansi_text.startswith(prefix)
>>>     assert color_text(text, None) == 'raw text'
>>> else:
>>>     # Otherwise text passes through unchanged
>>>     assert color_text(text, 'red') == 'raw text'
>>>     assert color_text(text, None) == 'raw text'