String issue with ANSI code

Question

My goal is to visualize, for example, this output:

[ Sun, 09 06 2013 12:51:49 ]

The entire date must be colorized with this ANSI code:

\033[1m\x1b[32m DATE \x1b[0m\r

I tried with this piece of code:

import time

DATE = time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", time.localtime())

OUTPUT = "[ " + "\033[1m\x1b[32m" + DATE + "\x1b[0m\r" + " ]"

print OUTPUT

But it returns me a string completely wrong:

What's wrong with this?

Answer 1

The carriage return \r in the string causes the cursor to be placed at the start of the line, so the ] overwrites [.

Change it to this:

OUTPUT = "[ \033[1m\x1b[32m" + DATE + "\x1b[0m ]\r"