title: Why does termcolor output control characters instead of colored text in the Windows console?
body: <p>I just installed <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor" rel="noreferrer">termcolor</a> for Python 2.7 on Windows. When I try to print colored text, I get the color codes instead.</p>
  
  <pre><code>from termcolor import colored
  print colored('Text text text', 'red')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the result:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CaAz4.png" alt="Screenshot of the Windows console window with the line: &quot;←31mText text text←[0m&quot;"></p>
  
  <p>I obtain the same results on Far Manager and when I tried to run the script as a standalone application.</p>