python颜色填充代码,Python的`str.format（）`，填充字符和ANSI颜色

In Python 2, I’m using str.format() to align a bunch of columns of text I’m printing to a terminal. Basically, it’s a table, but I’m not printing any borders or anything—it’s simply rows of text, aligned into columns.

With no color-fiddling, everything prints as expected.

If I wrap an entire row (i.e., one print statement) with ANSI color codes, everything prints as expected.

However: If I try to make each column a different color within a row, the alignment is thrown off. Technically, the alignment is preserved; it’s the fill characters (spaces) that aren’t printing as desired; in fact, the fill characters seem to be completely removed.

I’ve verified the same issue with both colorama and xtermcolor. The results were the same. Therefore, I’m certain the issue has to do with str.format() not playing well with ANSI escape sequences in the middle of a string.

But I don’t know what to do about it! :( I would really like to know if there’s any kind of workaround for this problem.

Color and alignment are powerful tools for improving readability, and readability is an important part of software usability. It would mean a lot to me if this could be accomplished without manually aligning each column of text.

Little help? ☺

解决方案

Python doesn't distinguish between 'normal' characters and ANSI colour codes, which are also characters that the terminal interprets.

In other words, printing '\x1b[92m' to a terminal may change the terminal text colour, Python doesn't see that as anything but a set of 5 characters. If you use print repr(line) instead, python will print the string literal form instead, including using escape codes for non-ASCII printable characters (so the ESC ASCII code, 27, is displayed as \x1b) to see how many have been added.

You'll need to adjust your column alignments manually to allow for those extra characters.

Without your actual code, that's hard for us to help you with though.