python colorama print all colors

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I am new to learning Python, and I came across colorama. As a test project, I wanted to print out all the available colors in colorama.

from colorama import Fore
from colorama import init as colorama_init

colorama_init(autoreset=True)

colors = [x for x in dir(Fore) if x[0] != "_"]
for color  in colors:
    print(color + f"{color}")

of course this outputs all black output like this:

BLACKBLACK
BLUEBLUE
CYANCYAN
...

because the Dir(Fore) just gives me a string representation of Fore.BLUE, Fore.GREEN, …

Is there a way to access all the Fore Color property so they actually work, as in:

print(Fore.BLUE + "Blue")

Or in other words, this may express my problem better.

I wanted to write this:

print(Fore.BLACK + 'BLACK')
print(Fore.BLUE + 'BLUE')
print(Fore.CYAN + 'CYAN')
print(Fore.GREEN + 'GREEN')
print(Fore.LIGHTBLACK_EX + 'LIGHTBLACK_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTBLUE_EX + 'LIGHTBLUE_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTCYAN_EX + 'LIGHTCYAN_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTGREEN_EX + 'LIGHTGREEN_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTMAGENTA_EX + 'LIGHTMAGENTA_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTRED_EX + 'LIGHTRED_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTWHITE_EX + 'LIGHTWHITE_EX')
print(Fore.LIGHTYELLOW_EX + 'LIGHTYELLOW_EX')
print(Fore.MAGENTA + 'MAGENTA')
print(Fore.RED + 'RED')
print(Fore.RESET + 'RESET')
print(Fore.WHITE + 'WHITE')
print(Fore.YELLOW + 'YELLOW')

in a shorter way:

for color in all_the_colors_that_are_available_in_Fore:
    print('the word color in the representing color')
    #or something like this?
    print(Fore.color + color)

Asked By: Gerrit Geeraerts

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Answer 1

The reason why it’s printing the color name twice is well described in Patrick’s comment on the question.

Is their a way to access all the Fore Color property so they actualy work as in

According to: https://pypi.org/project/colorama/

You can print a colored string using other ways than e.g.print(Fore.RED + 'some red text')

You can use colored function from termcolor module which takes a string and a color to colorize that string. But not all Fore colors are supported so you can do the following:

from colorama import Fore
from colorama import init as colorama_init
from termcolor import colored

colorama_init(autoreset=True)

colors = [x for x in dir(Fore) if x[0] != "_"]
colors = [i for i in colors if i not in ["BLACK", "RESET"] and "LIGHT" not in i] 

for color  in colors:
    print(colored(color, color.lower()))

Hope this answered your question.

EDIT:

I read more about Fore items and I found that you can retrieve a dictionary containing each color as keys and it’s code as values, so you can do the following to include all the colors in Fore:

from colorama import Fore
from colorama import init as colorama_init

colorama_init(autoreset=True)

colors = dict(Fore.__dict__.items())

for color in colors.keys():
    print(colors[color] + f"{color}")

Answered By: Kasper

Answer 2

You could also use eval().

for i in listOfColors:
    color = "Fore." + i
    print(eval(color), i)
    print(Style.RESET_ALL, end='') #end='' prevents extra newlines

Answered By: jabtnadkhb

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