tim, you are right. i'm using Windows XP and Python 2.5. thanks tcl76 > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:21:26 +0000 > From: m...@timgolden.me.uk > CC: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Change Font Size when print to screen > > On 11/01/2011 09:03, tee chwee liong wrote: > > When I do print "Hello World", it will print to the cmd window with > > the standard font size. Is there a way we can increase the font size > > to larger when print out to the cmd window? > > I'm going to assume that you're using Windows, since you > refer to the "cmd window". If you're on Linux or OS X the > answer will be different. > > In short, this isn't straightforward. The Python interpreter > simply sends text to the console and the console renders it > using whatever font and size have been selected by the user. > > You can set the font & size of any console window (and save > it as the default) by using the System Menu -- left-click at > the top-left of the Window. > > But if you want a particular Python script to have the power > to write smaller or larger text on demand, you're going to > need to control the console functions directly. You can do > this via the win32console module of the pywin32 modules: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ > > or by rolling the same thing yourself from within Python via ctypes: > > http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html > > I'm not aware that you can have a mixture of smaller and larger > (or different) fonts on one console window. AFAICT you can set > the font/size for the whole console but nothing else. If you need > more control, you're going to have to move to some kind of > GUI solution. > > TJG > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
