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I use the following color class found in this question "Print in terminal with colors?"

class bcolors:
    HEADER = '\033[95m'
    OKBLUE = '\033[94m'
    OKGREEN = '\033[92m'
    WARNING = '\033[93m'
    FAIL = '\033[91m'
    ENDC = '\033[0m'
    BOLD = '\033[1m'
    UNDERLINE = '\033[4m'

print(bcolors.FAIL + "some error" + bcolors.ENDC)

When I run this in my python script editor I get the output in the correct red error color:

some error
[Finished in 18.782s]

However when I run from command prompt, or using powershell (my intended console output) I get the this output:

[91msome error[0m

(there are arrows before each "[" but would not show every time I press save)

update:

Here is a capture of the output:

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This seems a very attractive approach because I do not have to download or import any new modules and could just include it in a few lines in my script. This was voted to be the best answer but I could not get it working because it seems to interpret \033 as some ASCII for the arrow sign.

Ansgar Wiechers
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Hadi Farah
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    This might be relevant : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51680709/colored-text-output-in-powershell-console-using-ansi-vt100-codes – Aaron Dec 05 '18 at 09:41
  • @Aaron this was really helpful thank you. Apparently I didn't get that as a "suggested" or "related" when I wrote my question. – Hadi Farah Dec 05 '18 at 10:10

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In the linked answer you can also find the following statement:

This will work on unixes including OS X, linux and windows (provided you use ANSICON, or in Windows 10 provided you enable VT100 emulation).

Since you are asking about powershell which of the two have you tried?

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Perhaps you might rather want to look into Colorama

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  • It seems I have to because my entire applications runs on one shell and even if I enable Virtual Terminal Sequences. I would need to restart the the shell for the changes to take effect. Thank you for pointing out the issue. – Hadi Farah Dec 05 '18 at 09:55