Change console font in Windows

Question

Is there a way to change the console font in Windows in python 2.6?

I\'m on Windows 7.

ie:

import os
os.console.font = \'Lucida Console\'
         


        

Answer 1

Well, I haven't dig deep enough to be able to choose font by name (and I doubt it is possible), but this code (provided that pywin32 is installed) seems to do something funny with it's console (must be cmd.exe, Console2 doesn't work, I don't know if it works with powershell):

[C:Users/cji]|1> import win32console
[C:Users/cji]|2> win32console.PyConsoleScreenBufferType( win32console.GetStdHandle( win32console.STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE )  )
         <2> 
[C:Users/cji]|3> p = _
[C:Users/cji]|6> p.SetConsoleFont( 1 )
[C:Users/cji]|7> p.SetConsoleFont( 2 )
# and so on, to:
[C:Users/cji]|12> p.SetConsoleFont( 11 ) #this is Lucida Console, if I see correctly

Documentation says, that SetConsoleFont "is not documented on MSDN"... But, it certainly does something with current console font, so I think you should search in this direction.

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