utility to return ansi colored text.

color.py

class Color(object):
    """
     utility to return ansi colored text.
     usage::

        >>> from color import colored
        >>> colored("text","red")
        '\x1b[31mtext\x1b[0m'
    """

    colors = {
        'black': 30,
        'red': 31,
        'green': 32,
        'yellow': 33,
        'blue': 34,
        'magenta': 35,
        'cyan': 36,
        'white': 37,
        'bgred': 41,
        'bggrey': 100
    }

    prefix = '\033['

    suffix = '\033[0m'

    def colored(self, text, color=None):
        """
        usage:

        """
        if color not in self.colors:
            color = 'white'

        clr = self.colors[color]
        return (self.prefix+'%dm%s'+self.suffix) % (clr, text)


colored = Color().colored

if __name__ == '__main__':

    for clr in Color.colors:
        print colored(clr, clr)