irc-nick-color.py

#!/usr/bin/python2

import sys

irccolors =        (19,      20,     22,     24,     25,    26,     27,     28,     29)
ansicolors_gnome = ("32",   "31",   "35",   "93",   "92",   "36",   "96",   "94",   "95")
ansicolors_linux = ("0;32", "0;31", "0;35", "1;33", "1;32", "0;36", "1;36", "1;34", "0;35" )
colors = irccolors

ircformat = "{0}"
ansiformat = "\x1b[{0}m{1}"
format = ircformat #TODO

def color_of (nick):
    total = sum(ord(char) for char in nick)
    total %= len(colors)
    return colors[total]

i = 1
if sys.argv[1] == "-a":
    colors = ansicolors_linux
    format = ansiformat
    i += 1
elif sys.argv[1] == "-g":
    colors = ansicolors_gnome
    format = ansiformat
    i += 1

nick=sys.argv[i]
print format.format(color_of(nick), nick)
#print "\x1b[" + color_of(nick) + "m" + nick
#print color_of(nick)