Printing coloured text in Python not working. What am I doing wrong?

Question

I am very new to Python, and wanted to learn how to print coloured text. I don't have any modules like termcolor or colorama, but I found that I can use ANSI escape sequences to do this.

I found a sample code:

print('\x1b[6;30;42m' + 'Success!' + '\x1b[0m')

However, when I run it, it just prints the entire thing like this:

[6;30;42mSuccess![0m

What am I doing wrong, and how can I print coloured texts?

Thank you very much!!

Edit: I am using python 3.7

Answer 1

So it turned out you were doing nothing wrong, just executing the Python code in an environment (the IDLE IDE on Mac) which does not recognize (by default?) ANSI escape sequences .

On Mac, ANSI escape sequences are supported, eg, by Terminal .

Answer 2

Try this

Blue =  '\033[34m' # Blue Text
print(Blue + 'Hello World')

at the spot where it says 34m that is the colour. red is 31 yellow is 33 purple is 35. and more. THis works for python