Detect whether a terminal supports color

A port of the Node.js package supports-color to Python.

python3 -m pip install -U supports-color 

from supports_color import supportsColor if supportsColor.stdout: print('Terminal stdout supports color'); if supportsColor.stdout.has256: print('Terminal stdout supports 256 colors'); if supportsColor.stderr.has16m: print('Terminal stderr supports 16 million colors (truecolor)');

See chalk/supports-color API docs.

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