stdout_colours.py update (now with example)

I've updated my stdout_colours.py library. You can now choose whether to display colors and caller/caller function output. I also added an example. It's not a simple "Hello, World". I decided to use one of my urlpacker (Borrowed From Somewhere on the internet)scripts to show you how stdout_colours can be used in your classes and function.

Take a look at the project located on Google code.

code.google.com/p/python-stdout-colors/





It is good for a app that gives alot of output to the terminal. Your eyes will pick up color faster than they will black on white text. It is something I add to all my projects now. For easier output representation. Enjoy it. It's really cool.
Please post any modifications that you make as a courtesy. I would greatly appreciate it and would like to improve this lib with a dozen more features/functions. So far it gets updated on a project need bases. If it's good, I use it in future projects. The usual drill. Tell me what you think.

Thanks, -A

My python curl.py class template with stdout colors support

This is my curl.py class that I use as a template. It supports stdout colors. When a function is called is displays output of the caller and called functions. Also you can display any string, list, dict,tuple,etc...Very Nice, I like. It's the same thing as using print. Only you add color to the output. I especially like it for situations like. Displaying webpage data. Large amounts of it. Logs and CSV files. You can find patters and display them in different colors. You can use this script to download and upload data to any website. Please correct indentation where necessary.

How to Use: sess = curl.session("") #create new session
sess.login("http://domain/site/login_post","admin","super_secret_pass")

#!/usr/bin/env python
from ctypes import *
import os, sys, types, urllib, urllib2, urlparse, string, pycurl
import stdout_colours


class curl(object):
"Encapsulate user operations on CGIs through curl."
def __init__(self, base_url=""):
self.func_me_color="white_on_black"
self.soc=stdout_colours.stdout_colors()
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
# These members might be set.
self.base_url = base_url
self.verbosity = 0
# Nothing past here should be modified by the caller.
self.response = ""
self.curlobj = pycurl.Curl()
# Verify that we've got the right site...
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2)
# Follow redirects in case it wants to take us to a CGI...
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
# Setting this option with even a nonexistent file makes libcurl
# handle cookie capture and playback automatically.
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.COOKIEFILE, "/dev/null")
# Set timeouts to avoid hanging too long
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.TIMEOUT, 300)
# Set up a callback to capture
def response_callback(x):
self.response += x
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, response_callback)
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
def set_verbosity(self, level):
"Set verbosity to 1 to see transactions."
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.VERBOSE, level)
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
def get(self, cgi, params="",verbose=0):
"Ship a GET request to a specified CGI, capture the response body."
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
if params:
cgi += "?" + urllib.urlencode(params)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.URL, os.path.join(self.base_url, cgi))
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.HTTPGET, 1)
self.response = ""
self.curlobj.perform()
if verbose > 0:
print self.response
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

def post(self, cgi, params,verbose=0):
"Ship a POST request to a specified CGI, capture the response body.."
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.URL, os.path.join(self.base_url, cgi))
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, urllib.urlencode(params))
self.response = ""
self.curlobj.perform()
if verbose>0:
print self.response
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
def upload(self, cgi, file_name, file, verbose=0):
"POST file from localhost to location/cgi."
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.URL, os.path.join(self.base_url, cgi))
self.curlobj.setopt(pycurl.HTTPPOST,[(file_name, (pycurl.FORM_FILE,file))])
self.response = ""
self.curlobj.perform()
if verbose>0:
print self.response
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
filename), "wb").write(content)

#fnames = ",".join([fname for fname, ct, c in files])
#return HttpResponse("me-%s-RECEIVE-OK[POST=%s,files=%s]" % (request.META["SERVER_PORT"], request.POST.values(), fnames ))

def answered(self, check):
"Does a given check string occur in the response?"
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.soc.me_him(['RETURN:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
return self.response.find(check) >= 0
def close(self):
"Close a session, freeing resources."
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.curlobj.close()
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

class session(curl):
def login(self, cgisite,username, password):
"""login - cgi="account/login.php",params=(("username",name),("password",pass),("foo","bar")) """
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.post(cgisite, (("username",username),
("password",password),
("mode","login"),
("usertype","P"),
("redirect","admin")))
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
def logout(self, cgisite):
"""logout - cgi="account/logout.php" """
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.get(cgisite)
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) < 3:
print "Usage: %s \"schema://site/cgi\" \"username\" \"password\"" % sys.argv[0]
site=sys.argv[1]
username=sys.argv[2]
password=sys.argv[3]
sess=session("")
sess.set_verbosity(1)
sess.login(site,username,password)
a=""
for i in range(len(password)):
a+="*"

print "YOU ARE LOGGED IN!",site,username,a
sess.logout()
sess.close()

Python STDOUT Colors Script

This is a great script I use for debugging and/or general stdout colorization when working with python.If you run it from console with no parameters it loops through stdout colors. Displaying them with the string that represents that color. Notice: Some color codes may come out different than what they appear. It's very useful to import inside your other scripts and print your output in color. I though it was great. Makes for debugging large amounts of data a snap. Maybe someone else will find it useful as well. Enjoy!

This script is also located at:
code.google.com/p/python-stdout-colors/

Download PY!
Tell me what you think, leave a comment.

Runnable from terminal:
chmod +x stdout_colours.py
python stdout_colours.py

Use it in your code like this:

self.soc.write(["printing','a','list'],"red")
self.soc.write("printing a string","green")
self.soc.write({"printing":"dictionary","testing":"fun"},'blue')
self.soc.write(("printing","a","tuple"),'yellow')

Add it to your functions like this:

import stdout_colours

class some_class(object):

def __init__(self):

self.testing="fun"
self.func_me_color="white_on_blue"
self.soc=stdout_colours.stdout_colors()
self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.soc.write("doing something:","red")
self.do_something()
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

def do_something(self):

self.soc.me(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.soc.write("doing something else:","green")
self.do_something_else()
self.soc.me(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

def do_something_else(self):

self.soc.me_him(['ENTER:',__name__],self.func_me_color)
self.soc.write(['testing','is',testing],"yellow")
self.soc.me_him(['EXIT:',__name__],self.func_me_color)

EDIT: I actually like to use this over print when I deal with terminal/console apps. Much easier to tell what is going on when text is scrolling by so fast.
I hope this helps someone. Leave a comment. Enjoy.