Colorfull command line output on windows (using python > 2.6).

print_c.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Colorfull command line output on windows.
"""

from __future__ import print_function

import sys
from ctypes import windll, c_ulong

windll.Kernel32.GetStdHandle.restype = c_ulong
_HANDLE = windll.Kernel32.GetStdHandle(c_ulong(0xfffffff5))


COLORS = {
    'dark-blue': 1,
    'dark-green': 2,
    'dark-turquoise': 3,
    'dark-red': 4,
    'dark-purple': 5,
    'gold': 6,
    'light-gray': 7,
    'gray': 8,
    'blue': 9,
    'green': 10,
    'turquoise': 11,
    'red': 12,
    'purple': 13,
    'yellow': 14,
    'white': 15
}


def print_c(s, end='\n', color='white'):
    windll.Kernel32.SetConsoleTextAttribute(_HANDLE, COLORS[color])
    print(s, end=end)
    windll.Kernel32.SetConsoleTextAttribute(_HANDLE, COLORS['white'])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    for color in COLORS:
        print_c("{}".format(color), end='', color=color)