This is a pretty simple tool/toy which colorizes its input and prints result to the STDOUT. Coloring rules are pretty simple: one char - one color. A char->color mapping can be easily customized through environment variable.

This project was heavily inspired by this post from @afiskon.

Just install one prerequisite - termcolor library and then run:

$ python termcolor_test.py map.txt
...

Of course you can do some piping:

$ cat map.txt | python termcolor_test.py -
...

Program was tested with Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 and works fine with both. You can test it with your version of interpreter. Just do:

$ TEST=true python termcolor_test.py

If no warnings or errors appeared then everything is OK :)

A mapping char->color can be customized in a way:

$ export TERMCOLOR_PALETTE="x=red : o=white+"
$ echo -e "xox\nxxo\nooo" | python termcolor_test.py -

Each item of palette (o=white+ for example) contains:

1. A char to color o
2. Equality sign =
3. Color name. Possible values:
   • grey
   • red
   • green
   • yellow
   • blue
   • magenta
   • cyan
   • white
4. Optional color modifier. Here + means "bright" (bold in ANSI Terminal lexicon) and - means "dark".

You can freely use all of the stuff in this repo. And any kind of PRs and proposals is welcomed.