Perl has the excellent module Term::ANSIScreen for doing all sorts of fancy cursor movement and terminal color control. I'd like to reimplement a program that's currently in Perl in Python instead, but the terminal ANSI colors are key to its function. Is anyone aware of an equivalent?
If you only need colors You may want to borrow the implementation from pygments. IMO it's much cleaner than the one from ActiveState
http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/pygments-main/file/b2deea5b5030/pygments/console.py