Generating color ranges in Python

Question

I want to generate a list of color specifications in the form of (r, g, b) tuples, that span the entire color spectrum with as many entries as I want. So for 5 entries I wou

Answer 1

Following the steps of kquinn's and jhrf :)

For Python 3 it can be done the following way:

def get_N_HexCol(N=5):
    HSV_tuples = [(x * 1.0 / N, 0.5, 0.5) for x in range(N)]
    hex_out = []
    for rgb in HSV_tuples:
        rgb = map(lambda x: int(x * 255), colorsys.hsv_to_rgb(*rgb))
        hex_out.append('#%02x%02x%02x' % tuple(rgb))
    return hex_out