colored_text

Lightweight utilities for applying ANSI colors and styles to Python text output.

Installation

pip install colored_text

Usage

from colored_text import Style, available_styles, colorize, print_colored

print(colorize("Hello world", Style.BOLD, Style.BLUE))
print_colored("Warning", "red", "underline")

# See all available styles
print(Style.RED.value, available_styles())

Styles can be provided as Style enum members or case-insensitive strings. All outputs automatically reset styling at the end of the text.

Development

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
pytest

Publishing to PyPI

1. Build the package:

   python -m build

2. Validate the distributions:

   twine check dist/*

3. Upload to PyPI:

   twine upload dist/*

Create a draft release in GitHub after validating builds, then publish the artifacts generated in dist/.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.