Can you put Italics in python?

Question

Is it possible? I need it for a program I'm making and if not I'll try something else.

Answer 1

I haven't used it myself but I know that the functionality exists in this library: Rich

Rich is a Python library for writing rich text (with color and style) to the terminal, and for displaying advanced content such as tables, markdown, and syntax highlighted code.

Answer 2

you can use ANSI escape codes in any language, however rendering that as expected is the responsibility of the terminal, for the most part they respect ANSI (with some notable exceptions)

print("\033[3mitalic\033[0m")

you can of course output Markdown or HTML italics if you are outputting that ...

If you are using some GUI library you probably just need to set the italic style

most text ui libraries have utility functions built around ANSI escape codes where you just do something like

my_string = "not italic " + italict("italic")+" text

which you can easily just implement as

def italic(txt):
    return f"\033[3m{txt}\033[0m"

on windows(cmd nor powershell nor conhost) this wont work ...

• ansii support is disabled by default, easy to enable however
• i dont think windows(cmd nor powershell nor conhost) support the italic escape code, they support bold and underline and colors, but no italics

other windows terminal programs (not built in) do support full ansii codes