Uses colorama instead of clint

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+### 1.0.2 (April 17, 2013)
+
+* [Improved] Removed clint in favour of colorama
 ### 1.0.1 (March 12, 2013)
 
 * [Fixed] Requires parsedatetime 1.1.2 or newer

README.md

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ The configuration file is a simple JSON file with the following options.
 - `tagsymbols`: Symbols to be interpreted as tags. (__See note below__)
 - `default_hour` and `default_minute`: if you supply a date, such as `last thursday`, but no specific time, the entry will be created at this time
 - `timeformat`: how to format the timestamps in your journal, see the [python docs](http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime) for reference
-- `highlight`: if `true` and you have [clint](http://www.nicosphere.net/clint-command-line-library-for-python/) installed, tags will be highlighted in cyan.
+- `highlight`: if `true`, tags will be highlighted in cyan.
 - `linewrap`: controls the width of the output. Set to `0` or `false` if you don't want to wrap long lines.
 
 > __Note on `tagsymbols`:__ Although it seems intuitive to use the `#` character for tags, there's a drawback: on most shells, this is interpreted as a meta-character starting a comment. This means that if you type

jrnl/Journal.py

@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ except ImportError:
 import hashlib
 import getpass
 try:
-    import clint
+    import colorama
+    colorama.init()
 except ImportError:
-    clint = None
+    colorama = None
 import plistlib
 import uuid
 
@@ -50,9 +51,9 @@ class Journal(object):
         self.entries = self.parse(journal_txt)
         self.sort()
 
-    def _colorize(self, string, color='red'):
+    def _colorize(self, string):
-        if clint:
+        if colorama:
-            return str(clint.textui.colored.ColoredString(color.upper(), string))
+            return colorama.Fore.CYAN + string + colorama.Fore.RESET
         else:
             return string
 
@@ -152,11 +153,11 @@ class Journal(object):
                 for tag in self.search_tags:
                     tagre = re.compile(re.escape(tag), re.IGNORECASE)
                     pp = re.sub(tagre,
-                                lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0), 'cyan'),
+                                lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
                                 pp)
             else:
                 pp = re.sub(r"([%s]\w+)" % self.config['tagsymbols'],
-                            lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0), 'cyan'),
+                            lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
                             pp)
         return pp
 

jrnl/install.py

@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ def install_jrnl(config_path='~/.jrnl_config'):
         print("PyCrypto not found. To encrypt your journal, install the PyCrypto package from http://www.pycrypto.org and run 'jrnl --encrypt'. For now, your journal will be stored in plain text.")
 
     # Use highlighting:
-    if module_exists("clint"):
+    if module_exists("colorama"):
-        print("clint not found. To turn on highlighting, install clint and set highlight to true in your .jrnl_conf.")
+        print("colorama not found. To turn on highlighting, install colorama and set highlight to true in your .jrnl_conf.")
         default_config['highlight'] = False
 
     open(default_config['journals']['default'], 'a').close() # Touch to make sure it's there
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ def install_jrnl(config_path='~/.jrnl_config'):
         config['password'] = password
     return config
 
-    
+

setup.py

@@ -56,11 +56,13 @@ setup(
     version = "1.0.1",
     description = "A command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file",
     packages = ['jrnl'],
-    install_requires = ["parsedatetime >= 1.1.2"],
     extras_require = {
         'encryption': ["pycrypto"],
-        'highlight':  ["clint"]
     },
+    install_requires = [
+        "parsedatetime >= 1.1.2",
+        "colorama >= 0.2.5",
+        ],
     long_description=__doc__,
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': [