Python Colorcodes class

colorcodes.py

class Colorcodes(object):
    """
    Provides ANSI terminal color codes which are gathered via the ``tput``
    utility. That way, they are portable. If there occurs any error with
    ``tput``, all codes are initialized as an empty string.

    The provides fields are listed below.

    Control:

    - bold
    - reset

    Colors:

    - blue
    - green
    - orange
    - red

    :license: MIT
    """
    def __init__(self):
        try:
            self.bold = subprocess.check_output("tput bold".split())
            self.reset = subprocess.check_output("tput sgr0".split())

            self.blue = subprocess.check_output("tput setaf 4".split())
            self.green = subprocess.check_output("tput setaf 2".split())
            self.orange = subprocess.check_output("tput setaf 3".split())
            self.red = subprocess.check_output("tput setaf 1".split())
        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
            self.bold = ""
            self.reset = ""

            self.blue = ""
            self.green = ""
            self.orange = ""
            self.red = ""

_c = Colorcodes()

Thanks, this helped me :)
For Python 3 add .decode('latin1') to the check_output's output to translate the byte sequence 1:1 to an 8 bit character string:

self.red = subprocess.check_output("tput setaf 1".split()).decode('latin1')

I got:

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

Linux Mint 20.3 (Cinnamon 5.2.7)
Python 3.8

@niun: You don't need to specify latin1, because hopefully it is utf8. Just use .decode().

@deekb: Make sure you have a sensible value for $TERM, like xterm-256color. Perhaps set it in your .bashrc with export TERM=xterm-256color.

got it, looks like I was using thonny and had not set it up correctly