How to add color to your terminal
This post explains how to control colors in your terminal / shell
In shell
From a shell prompt, to print in various colors:
echo "\033[1;31m" hello "\033[1;37m" world # prints hello in red, world in white
In Python
In python, when performing a print statement which gets sent to stdout, you can perform the following:
color_red = "\[\033[1;31m\]"
color_off="\[\033[0m\]"
print(f'this is some {color_red}important text{color_off}. This is not important text.')
Short list of colors
# Reset
Color_Off="\[\033[0m\]" # Text Reset
# Regular Colors
Black="\[\033[0;30m\]" # Black
Red="\[\033[0;31m\]" # Red
Green="\[\033[0;32m\]" # Green
Yellow="\[\033[0;33m\]" # Yellow
Blue="\[\033[0;34m\]" # Blue
Purple="\[\033[0;35m\]" # Purple
Cyan="\[\033[0;36m\]" # Cyan
White="\[\033[0;37m\]" # White