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Makes ANSI escape character sequences for producing colored terminal
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text and cursor positioning work under MS Windows.
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ANSI escape character sequences have long been used to produce colored
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terminal text and cursor positioning on Unix and Macs. Colorama makes this
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work on Windows, too, by wrapping stdout, stripping ANSI sequences it finds
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(which otherwise show up as gobbledygook in your output), and converting
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them into the appropriate win32 calls to modify the state of the terminal.
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On other platforms, Colorama does nothing.
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Colorama also provides some shortcuts to help generate ANSI sequences but
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works fine in conjunction with any other ANSI sequence generation library,
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such as Termcolor (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor.)
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This has the upshot of providing a simple cross-platform API for printing
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colored terminal text from Python, and has the happy side-effect that
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existing applications or libraries which use ANSI sequences to produce
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colored output on Linux or Macs can now also work on Windows, simply by
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calling colorama.init().
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An alternative approach is to install 'ansi.sys' on Windows machines,
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which provides the same behaviour for all applications running in
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terminals. Colorama is intended for situations where that isn't easy
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(e.g. maybe your app doesn't have an installer.)
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Demo scripts in the source code repository prints some colored text
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using ANSI sequences. Compare their output under Gnome-terminal's
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built in ANSI handling, versus on Windows Command-Prompt using
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Colorama.
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