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authorKevin Van Brunt <kmvanbrunt@gmail.com>2020-01-08 17:11:17 -0500
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Merge pull request #843 from python-cmd2/ansi_to_style
ansi to style
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Colored Output
--------------
-The output methods in the previous section all honor the ``allow_ansi``
+The output methods in the previous section all honor the ``allow_style``
setting, which has three possible values:
Never
- poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() strip all ANSI escape sequences
+ poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() strip all ANSI style sequences
which instruct the terminal to colorize output
Terminal
(the default value) poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() do not strip any
- ANSI escape sequences when the output is a terminal, but if the output is a
- pipe or a file the escape sequences are stripped. If you want colorized
- output you must add ANSI escape sequences using either cmd2's internal ansi
+ ANSI style sequences when the output is a terminal, but if the output is a
+ pipe or a file the style sequences are stripped. If you want colorized
+ output you must add ANSI style sequences using either cmd2's internal ansi
module or another color library such as `plumbum.colors`, `colorama`, or
`colored`.
Always
- poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() never strip ANSI escape sequences,
+ poutput(), pfeedback(), and ppaged() never strip ANSI style sequences,
regardless of the output destination
Colored and otherwise styled output can be generated using the `ansi.style()`