A cute little message printer that doesn't need any special libraries to run

print_message.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright (C) 2017, Kyle Squizzato <ksquizz@gmail.com>

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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"""
Terminal colors
"""
class colors:
    INFO = '\033[95m'       # purple
    OKBLUE = '\033[94m'     # blue
    OKGREEN = '\033[92m'    # green
    WARNING = '\033[93m'    # yellow
    ERROR = '\033[91m'      # red
    ENDC = '\033[0m'        # white
    BOLD = '\033[1m'        # bold
    UNDERLINE = '\033[4m'   # underline

"""
Construct a message with the following syntax:
[STATE] Message contents
with optional colorization using the above colors class
"""
def print_message(message, state=None, color=None):
    # color should be a member of above colors class, ie. colors.OKGREEN
    if color == None:
        # if no color is supplied use white
        color = colors.ENDC
    else:
        # calls to this function must accept an item from the colors class
        # above only
        try:
            color = color
        except AttributeError as e:
            raise
    # if no state is supplied just build message with provided color
    if state == None:
        constructed_state = color + ''
    else:
        # else uppercase it
        state = state.upper()
        constructed_state = color + ('[{0}]'.format(state))
    # construct message from constructed_state
    constructed_message = str(constructed_state).ljust(20) + colors.ENDC + message
    return constructed_message