Colorama for Python, Not returning colored print lines on Windows

Question

I've installed colorama for python. I've imported the module as follows:

import colorama
from colorama import init
init()
from colorama import Fore, Back, Style

print Fore.RED + "My Text is Red"

and it returns the ANSI charaters....

esc[31mMy Text is Red

This isn`t what I expected. Am I doing something wrong.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had this same issue on Windows 7 x64, I finally got the colors working without having to install anything new just by adding the argument convert=True to the init call.

from colorama import init, Fore, Back, Style

init(convert=True)

print(Fore.RED + 'some red text')