Why does termcolor output control characters instead of colored text in the Windows console?

Question

I just installed termcolor for Python 2.7 on Windows. When I try to print colored text, I get the color codes instead.

from termcolor import colored
print co         


        

Answer 1

Did work :

inserting previous to importing termcolor:

import subprocess
subprocess.call('', shell=True)

Didn't work:

1. importing colorama (didn't) fix problem - still shows characters
2. importing / using termcolor2 (didn't) fix problem - still shows
   characters
3. importing colorama AND termcolor2 AND termcolor (didn't) fix problem.

Can't explain why it works, only that I was able to compare one script that colors worked correctly, and one that didn't work correctly.