Printy

Printy lets you colorize and apply some standard formats to your text with an intuitive and friendly API based on flags to specify the formats. You can either apply a global format or inline formats to specific parts of your text!

Installation

you can either clone this repository or install it via pip

pip install printy

How to use it?

Once you install printy, you can find a short but concise documentation about the available flags and the syntax opening a python console and running the following command:

from printy import helpme

This will print out some instructions right away.

Using global flags

Printy is still a 'print' statement, so you can use it as it is:

printy("Some text")

You can use a global set of flags to specify a format you want to apply to the text, let's say we want to colorize a text with a bold blue and also adding an underline:

printy("Some text", 'bBU')

Using inline format

Although applying a global format is interesting, it is not as much as applying some specific format to some section of the text only. For that, printy uses a intuitive syntax to accomplish that goal. Use the [] to specify the flags to use for formatting the text, right before the text, and the @ to finish the formatting section:

printy("Still [rI]Some@ Text")

The text that is not surrounded by the format syntax will remain with the predefined format.

But you can always override this default color for inline format specifying the flags in the 'default' parameter

printy("Still [rI]Some@ Text", default="b")

Or, you can override the whole format without having to change the inline format:

printy("Still [rI]Some@ Text", "b")

Dependencies

Printy currently support Python 3.5 and up. Printy is currently only tested in Unix based operative systems.

Contributing

Please feel free to contact me if you want to be part of the project and contribute. We'll looking forward to improve this simple but effective application.