Console#

Introduction #

Use print to display text in the Console in VEXcode V5 or VS Code.

All new projects begin with the cursor at row 1.

By using print, you can display values to the Console.

Along with normal text and values, print can output special character sequences (escape codes) that change font color or clear the Console.

Note: When using the VEXcode Console, you must connect to the Console Serial Port before any output can be printed to the Console.

print displays values on the Console.

Usage:
print(text, end)

Parameters	Description
`text`	The string (in quotations) or numbers to print to the Console.
`end`	Optional. By default, Python will add a new line after each `print` command. To print multiple values to the same line, use the `end` parameter.

# Print a greeting
print("Hello there!")

By default, Python will add a new line after each print command. To print multiple values to the same line, use the end parameter.

# Print text on the same line
print("This text will be ", end="")
print("printed on the same line")

You can change what color the font will be when printing to the Console by using the following color codes:

All color codes need to follow an escape sequence = \033 in order to function.

You can either use this directly with print as a string:

# Print VEXcode in Red to the Console
print("\033[31mVEXcode")

Or, you can use it on its own to set all uses of print afterwards to the set color:

# Set the Console text color to Red before printing
print("\033[31m")
print("VEXcode")

By using \033[2J inside of print, you can clear the entire Console. This will also set the cursor back to row 1.

# Clear the Console after 2 seconds
print("VEXcode")
wait(2, SECONDS)
print("\033[2J")