Is there a way to write formatted text from Python?

Question

If you are writing to a file with python, is there any way to make certain parts of the text bold, italic, or underlined ?

i tried:

test = '/location/tester.rtf'
out_file = open(test,'w')
out_file.write('is this {\bold}?')
out_file.close() #thanks to the comment below

is it possible to write FORMATTED TEXT like bold, italic, or underlined text via python ? i feel like .rtf is the most basic formatted text but correct me if i'm wrong

1) Ask the real question, in the title: "How can an RTF file be written in Python?" (Or whatever the desired format is; e.g. DOC, DOCX, whatever Open Office uses, etc.) and 2) Include the error symptoms (which usually includes error messages). — user2246674, Apr 23 '13 at 06:01
You have to `out_file.close()` before you can open it again. — Volatility, Apr 23 '13 at 06:01

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '13 at 06:31

Just been playing around with this assuming MS word, I found that you needed to wrap the document in '{}' and define the doctype, then start bold with '\b' and end with '\b0'. An example would be

test = 'tester.rtf'
out_file = open(test,'w')
out_file.write("""{\\rtf1
This is \\b Bold  \\b0\line\
}""")
out_file.close() #thanks to the comment below

Note the double '\' since python has special meanings for '\b' and '\r'.

The full info came from http://www.pindari.com/rtf1.html, which also describes italics, font etc.

Let me know if that worked for you.

Hi max K. Nice answer, what if we want variable to write in out_file.write. — sameer_nubia, Jul 20 '20 at 08:14

Is there a way to write formatted text from Python?

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