I prefer Blessings[1] for terminal colors/positioning/etc (except it's limited to platforms that support curses): from blessings import Terminal t = Te

I prefer Blessings[1] for terminal colors/positioning/etc (except it's limited to platforms that support curses): from blessings import Terminal t = Terminal() print t.bold, 'Hi there!', t.normal print t.bold_red_on_bright_green('It hurts my eyes!') with t.location(0, t.height - 1): print 'This is at the bottom.' [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/