Text printing for a text adventure game, with color and other stuff (Python)

Question

I really think there's a better way to do this, but I can't seem to find it. Can you please point me in the right direction?

import colorama
import os
from enum import Enum
def clearscreen():
 # Clear the screen
 os.system('cls' if os.name=='nt' else 'clear')
class Color(Enum):
 """
 An Enum for representing escape sequences, that color the terminal, even in 
 Windows, with colorama.
 """
 NATIVE = "033円[m"
 BLACK = "033円[0;30m"
 BLUE = "033円[0;34m"
 GREEN = "033円[0;32m"
 CYAN = "033円[0;36m"
 RED = "033円[0;31m"
 PURPLE = "033円[0;35m"
 BROWN = "033円[0;33m"
 GRAY = "033円[0;37m"
 DARK_GRAY = "033円[1;30m"
 LIGHT_BLUE = "033円[1;34m"
 LIGHT_GREEN = "033円[1;32m"
 LIGHT_CYAN = "033円[1;36m"
 LIGHT_RED = "033円[1;31m"
 LIGHT_PURPLE = "033円[1;35m"
 YELLOW = "033円[1;33m"
 WHITE = "033円[1;37m"
class Dialoge():
 """
 Basic Dialoge class, with various methods.
 """
 def __init__(self):
 colorama.init()
 def important(self, wrap)
 # Print an "I---I"-like line based on the length of the text
 print("I", end="")
 for dash in range(wrap):
 print("-", end="")
 print("I", end="")
 print()
 def tprint(self, message, color, char, rank):
 """
 Print Dialoge to the terminal, with a lot more options
 """
 total = ""
 if rank == 0:
 if char == "NO_CHAR":
 if color != "DEFAULT":
 print(f"{color}{message}{Color.NATIVE.value}")
 else:
 print(f"{message}")
 else:
 if color != "DEFAULT":
 print(f"{color}[{char}]:{Color.NATIVE.value} {message}")
 else:
 print(f"[{char}]: {message}")
 else:
 if char == "NO_CHAR":
 if color != "DEFAULT":
 if rank == 1:
 print(f"{color}! - {message} - !{Color.NATIVE.value}")
 elif rank == 2:
 total = f"!! -- {message} -- !!"
 print(color, end="")
 self.important(len(f"!! -- {message} -- !!") - 2)
 # When evaluating the length of a string, rest -2 for the "/r/n".
 print(total)
 self.important(len(f"!! -- {message} -- !!") - 2)
 print(Color.NATIVE.value, end="")
 elif rank == 3:
 clearscreen()
 print(color, end="")
 total = f"!!! --- {message} --- !!!"
 self.important(len(f"!!! --- {message} --- !!!") - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(f"!!! --- {message} --- !!!") - 2)
 print(Color.NATIVE.value, end="")
 else:
 if rank == 1:
 print(f"! - {message} - !")
 elif rank == 2:
 total = f"!! -- {message} -- !!"
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 elif rank == 3:
 clearscreen()
 total = f"!!! --- {message} --- !!!"
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 else:
 if color != "DEFAULT":
 if rank == 1:
 print(f"! - {color}[{char}]:{Color.NATIVE.value} {message} - !")
 elif rank == 2:
 total = f"!! -- {color}[{char}]:{Color.NATIVE.value} {message} -- !!"
 self.important(len(f"!! -- [{char}]: {message} -- !!") - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(f"!! -- [{char}]: {message} -- !!") - 2)
 elif rank == 3:
 clearscreen()
 total = f"!!! --- {color}[{char}]:{Color.NATIVE.value} {message} --- !!!"
 self.important(len(f"!!! --- [{char}]: {message} --- !!!") - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(f"!!! --- [{char}]: {message} --- !!!") - 2)
 else:
 if rank == 1:
 print(f"! - [{char}]: {message} - !")
 elif rank == 2:
 total = f"!! -- [{char}]: {message} -- !!"
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 elif rank == 3:
 clearscreen()
 total = f"!!! --- [{char}]: {message} --- !!!"
 self.important(len(total) - 2)
 print(total)
 self.important(len(total) - 2)

Answer 1

Your color code is not portable. Instead, try using something like the termcolor package which handles the complexity of colors for you. It seems like you've imported an initialized colorama, but aren't using that. That is a fine alternative. Just don't try doing it yourself (your Color enum)! With termcolor you can make help functions that abstract away color names:

print_warning = lambda x: cprint(f'warning: {x}', 'yellow')
# Later in your code
print_warning('something went wrong')

Instead of:

print('I', end='')
for dash in range(wrap):
 print('-', end='')
print('I', end='')
print()

Why not:

print('I' + ('-' * wrap) + 'I')

Or you could pull it out into a variable to make it a bit cleaner:

divider = '-' * wrap
print(f'I{divider}I')

tprint is way too confusing for me to follow. Perhaps try breaking it into several methods instead of one method whose behavior changes drastically depending on the parameters provided.