{"categories":[{"label":"Utilities","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/utilities/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Enables ANSI color and style codes in Windows console output by wrapping Jason Hood's ANSICON tool, allowing terminal color support.","skillfed_tags":["windows-only","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Enable ANSI color codes in legacy Windows console applications that were written for cross-platform terminal output.","Add colored output to Python CLI tools running on Windows without rewriting color logic for platform-specific APIs.","Support terminal styling in Windows batch or PowerShell-invoked Python scripts.","Maintain existing codebases that depend on ANSICON and cannot migrate to alternative approaches."],"what_it_does":"ansicon is a Python wrapper around Jason Hood's ANSICON, a Windows console utility that enables ANSI escape sequence support for colored and styled terminal output. On Windows, standard terminal applications often do not interpret ANSI color codes natively, so this wrapper loads ANSICON to bridge that gap and allow terminal color code usage.\n\nThe package provides three main functions: load() to activate ANSICON, unload() to deactivate it, and loaded() to check its current state. It is designed for developers who write terminal applications with ANSI color codes and need those codes to work on Windows without rewriting their output logic. However, the package has been abandoned since its latest release on 2019-04-29 and receives no active maintenance, making it a legacy tool primarily useful for maintaining older Windows console applications.","worth_installing":"No, unless you are maintaining legacy Windows console code that already depends on this package. The project is abandoned (last release 2019-04-29, no commits since 2023-04-13), and modern alternatives are better choices for new projects. The copyleft license also adds friction if you need to modify it."},"id":"ansicon","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ansicon","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ansicon.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/ansicon/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2019-04-29","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"ansicon","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Python wrapper for loading Jason Hood's ANSICON"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":672211,"position":5401,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.89.0"}