Detect whether a terminal supports color
A port of the Node.js package supports-color to Python.
python3 -m pip install -U supports-color
from supports_color import supportsColor
if supportsColor.stdout:
print('Terminal stdout supports color');
if supportsColor.stdout.has256:
print('Terminal stdout supports 256 colors');
if supportsColor.stderr.has16m:
print('Terminal stderr supports 16 million colors (truecolor)');See chalk/supports-color API docs.
MIT
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