Change console font in Windows

Question

Is there a way to change the console font in Windows in python 2.6?

I'm on Windows 7.

ie:

import os
os.console.font = 'Lucida Console'

*EDIT (posted this an answer by accident)

Some more information and questions:

I looked into the windows API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

It look like it has a function for changing the console font:

SetCurrentConsoleFontEx

or at least getting information about the current font:

GetCurrentConsoleFont
GetCurrentConsoleFontEx

My next step was to find a python module that I can use the windows API. Here's one called pywin32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

The actual modules you import are not called pywin32, but win32api, win32net, win32console I figured this out by complete guesswork. Where's the documentation? a run on help('win32console')

DOESN'T show the mentioned font functions in there, it's just plain missing them. Am I missing something here? Where are the docs? Or where is a module that has all of the API's console functions...?

Answer 1

It is possible to change the console font using ctypes. A minimal code example would look like this:

import ctypes

LF_FACESIZE = 32
STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11

class COORD(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("X", ctypes.c_short), ("Y", ctypes.c_short)]

class CONSOLE_FONT_INFOEX(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("cbSize", ctypes.c_ulong),
                ("nFont", ctypes.c_ulong),
                ("dwFontSize", COORD),
                ("FontFamily", ctypes.c_uint),
                ("FontWeight", ctypes.c_uint),
                ("FaceName", ctypes.c_wchar * LF_FACESIZE)]

font = CONSOLE_FONT_INFOEX()
font.cbSize = ctypes.sizeof(CONSOLE_FONT_INFOEX)
font.nFont = 12
font.dwFontSize.X = 11
font.dwFontSize.Y = 18
font.FontFamily = 54
font.FontWeight = 400
font.FaceName = "Lucida Console"

handle = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetCurrentConsoleFontEx(
        handle, ctypes.c_long(False), ctypes.pointer(font))

I also wrote a less minimal example on my homepage.

Answer 2

you might wanna check http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama