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On 08/04/2014 05:00 PM, Wiktor wrote:
>    Hi,
> first, thank you all for responses. I decided to just use single line frame
> around menu. Yes, those double+single line corners work fine in ConEmu, but
> I don't want this Python script to be dependent on external program. Maybe
> one day it will be worth of showing to others, and it's silly to tell them
> 'It is pure console based game/framework but works only in ConEmu'...
>
>
>    Now, to Terry's post:
>
>
>    I'm not starting from scratch. I'm using packages 'termcolor', 'colorama'
> and 'colorconsole' - they provide functions to print text at desired
> position on screen, and change color of foreground/background of this text.

Thanks for pointing out these packages! Since you say you're using all 
three of them: where do colorama and colorconsole differ. From a quick 
look, I can see that termcolor is a bit different, but colorama and 
colorconsole seem pretty similar in scope.

Thanks,
Wolfgang