I can't work out a to call my python function properly

Question

When I try to call a function from another python code file, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "%filepath%", line 2, in module

print(colour(red) + "Test")

NameError: name 'red' is not defined

from this code:

from hcolours import *
print(colours(red) + "Test")

When I have it defined in my code:

def colours():    
    reset = '\033[0m'
    bold='\033[01m'
    disable='\033[02m'
    underline='\033[04m'
    reverse='\033[07m'
    strikethrough='\033[09m'
    invisible='\033[08m'
    black='\033[30m'
    red = '\033[31m'

and so on (the full code ishere )

I have tried lots of different ways to get it to work but I can't understand it, I have even tried putting it up on PyPI

Do you need to do something special?

I'm completely stuck

Answer 1

Seems you mix function and class ...

From your code, you want to print with color, so you defined a function, but without argument. Maybe you want a class here?

class colours:    
    reset = '\033[0m'
    bold='\033[01m'
    disable='\033[02m'
    underline='\033[04m'
    reverse='\033[07m'
    strikethrough='\033[09m'
    invisible='\033[08m'
    black='\033[30m'
    red = '\033[31m'

print(colours.red + "Test" + colours.reset)

Then a possbile function could be

class colours:    
    reset = '\033[0m'
    bold='\033[01m'
    disable='\033[02m'
    underline='\033[04m'
    reverse='\033[07m'
    strikethrough='\033[09m'
    invisible='\033[08m'
    black='\033[30m'
    red = '\033[31m'

def print_colours(str):
        print(colours.red + str + colours.reset)
#we can test the string as below
#print_colours("Test")