Colorama

🌈 What is Colorama?

Colorama is a lightweight Python library that makes it easy to print colored and styled text in the terminal.
It helps your console output look more readable, expressive, and visually appealing.

It is widely used in:

• CLI (Command-Line Interface) applications

• Logging

• Interactive scripts

• Educational programs

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⭐ Why Use Colorama?

✔ Cross-platform compatibility

On Windows terminals, ANSI escape sequences (used to color text) don’t work by default.
Colorama translates them so your colors work the same on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

✔ Simple and intuitive

Colorama provides easy constants like Fore.RED, Back.BLUE, and Style.BRIGHT.

✔ Minimal and fast

It has no heavy dependencies and works instantly.

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🚀 Installation

pip install colorama

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🖥️ Basic Usage Example

from colorama import init, Fore, Back, Style

# Initialize Colorama (especially important on Windows)
init()

print(Fore.RED + "This text is red!")
print(Fore.GREEN + "This text is green.")
print(Back.YELLOW + "This has a yellow background.")
print(Style.BRIGHT + "Bright style text!")
print(Style.RESET_ALL + "Back to normal.")
print(Style.DIM + 'This text is dim' + Style.RESET_ALL)

 

 

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🎨 Common Colorama Constants

Foreground colors (Fore)

• Fore.RED

• Fore.GREEN

• Fore.BLUE

• Fore.YELLOW

• Fore.MAGENTA

• Fore.CYAN

• Fore.WHITE

• Fore.RESET

Background colors (Back)

• Back.RED

• Back.GREEN

• Back.BLUE

• …

Styles (Style)

• Style.DIM

• Style.NORMAL

• Style.BRIGHT

• Style.RESET_ALL

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🧹 Resetting Styles

Colorama styles are persistent—they continue until reset.
Use:

Style.RESET_ALL

or wrap your output:

print(f"{Fore.BLUE}Hello{Style.RESET_ALL}")

 

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📦 Advanced Feature: autoreset=True

Avoid manually resetting styles:

from colorama import init, Fore

init(autoreset=True)

print(Fore.RED + "Red text, auto resets after this line.")
print("This is normal again.")

 

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🛠️ Suitable Use Cases

• Making your CLI tool more user-friendly

• Color-coding log levels (e.g., errors in red)

• Making terminal output easier to scan

• Educational tools that need colorful output