External Modules

Modules that exist online on a server

• anyone can download
• https://pypi.org/
• You can download external modules using pip
  • Explained here: Virtual environment
• autopep8
  • you can download this to clean up code (to follow conventions)
  • In terminal: autopep8 --in-place file.py

Example: termcolor

• prints color to terminal output)
• help(termcolor): Tells us how to use termcolor`

python3 -m pip install termcolor

# ===== python file =====
import termcolor
print(termcolor.colored("hi", color='blue'))

Example 2: pyfiglet

from pyfiglet import figlet_format
from termcolor import colored
 
valid_colors = [....]
 
def print_art(msg, color):
	if color not in valid_colors:
		color = "magenta"
	art = figlet_format(msg)
	colored = (art, color = color)
	print(colored)
 
msg = input("What would you like to print? ")
color = input("What color? ")
print_art(msg, color)