printj

printj is a Python library designed to simplify the process of printing colored and formatted text to the terminal. It allows developers to easily add visual cues such as color, bolding, and underlining to their console output without complex ANSI escape code manipulation. The library provides a straightforward API for applying styles to strings.

To use printj, you typically import the relevant functions or classes. One common approach is to import specific style functions like `red`, `bold`, or `underline`. These functions then wrap the string you want to format, returning a new string with the appropriate terminal escape codes embedded. For example, `red("This text is red")` would output the phrase "This text is red" in red color on a compatible terminal.

printj supports a range of standard terminal colors, including basic colors like red, green, blue, yellow, and their brighter variants. It also offers formatting options such as bold, faint, italic, underline, and strikethrough. The library aims to be cross-platform, working on various operating systems where terminals support ANSI escape sequences. It is often used in command-line interfaces (CLIs), scripts, and debugging tools to enhance readability and highlight important information. The underlying mechanism relies on ANSI escape codes, which are special sequences of characters interpreted by terminals to control cursor movement, color, and other display attributes. printj abstracts these codes, making them accessible and manageable for Python developers.