bibliopixel.colors.names module

Convert back and forth between colors and string names.

bibliopixel.colors.names.color_to_name(color, use_hex=False)

Parameters:color (tuple) – an RGB 3-tuple of integer colors Returns:a string name for this color

name_to_color(color_to_name(c)) == c is guaranteed to be true (but the reverse is not true, because name_to_color is a many-to-one function).

bibliopixel.colors.names.name_to_color(name)

Parameters:name (str) – a string identifying a color. It might be a color name from the two lists of color names, juce and classic; or it might be a list of numeric r, g, b values separated by commas. Returns:a color as an RGB 3-tuple

bibliopixel.colors.names.to_color(c)

Try to coerce the argument into a color - a 3-tuple of numbers-

bibliopixel.colors.names.toggle(s)

Toggle back and forth between a name and a tuple representation.

Parameters:s (str) – a string which is either a text name, or a tuple-string: a string with three numbers separated by commas Returns:if the string was a text name, return a tuple. If it’s a tuple-string and it corresponds to a text name, return the text name, else return the original tuple-string.