Initialisation

Applications should initialise Colorama using:

from colorama import init
init()

If you are on Windows, the call to init() will start filtering ANSI escape
sequences out of any text sent to stdout or stderr, and will replace them with
equivalent Win32 calls.

Calling init() has no effect on other platforms (unless you request other
optional functionality, see keyword args below.) The intention is that
applications can call init() unconditionally on all platforms, after which
ANSI output should just work.

To stop using colorama before your program exits, simply call deinit().
This will restore stdout and stderr to their original values, so that Colorama
is disabled. To start using Colorama again, call reinit(), which wraps
stdout and stderr again, but is cheaper to call than doing init() all over
again.

Colored Output

Cross-platform printing of colored text can then be done using Colorama's
constant shorthand for ANSI escape sequences:

from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
print Fore.RED + 'some red text'
print Back.GREEN + and with a green background'
print Style.DIM + 'and in dim text'
print + Fore.RESET + Back.RESET + Style.RESET_ALL
print 'back to normal now'

or simply by manually printing ANSI sequences from your own code:

print '/033[31m' + 'some red text'
print '/033[30m' # and reset to default color

or Colorama can be used happily in conjunction with existing ANSI libraries
such as Termcolor:

from colorama import init
from termcolor import colored
# use Colorama to make Termcolor work on Windows too
init()
# then use Termcolor for all colored text output
print colored('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red')

Available formatting constants are:

Fore: BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, RESET.
Back: BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, RESET.
Style: DIM, NORMAL, BRIGHT, RESET_ALL

Style.RESET_ALL resets foreground, background and brightness. Colorama will
perform this reset automatically on program exit.