将文本颜色保存到python中的文本文件？

Question

I am wondering, is there any way to save the color of text when printing stdout to a text file? Here is a snippet of code for example:

import sys, time, shutil

sys.stdout = open('testytest.txt', 'w')
print "\033[0;32mSome text"

time.sleep(1)

#"Some text" should still be colored when reprinted
with open('testytest.txt', 'r') as testfile:
     shutil.copyfileobj(testfile, sys.stdout)

So, once again, is there any way to save color when stdout is being saved to a text file? Or is it already saved?

Answer 1

Well you print the escape characters as well.

So if you save the data that is printed to the stdout like:

python somescript.py > somefile

That file will contain the escape chars as well.

This to conclude: it is already saved . Instructions to modify the color actually don't exist. The program simply writes a binary stream and some shell visual programs interpret this as command to color.