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Prompt & Confirm (Prompter)

Prompter adds interactive prompts on top of the color-aware Printer. You usually won't instantiate it. Directly use the ready-made Console:

from sciwork.console import Console

con = Console()

name = con.prompt("Your name", default="Anonymous", transform=str.strip)
wants = con.confirm("Proceed with processing?", default=True)

print("->", name, wants)

Features

  • Colorized prompt text and hint suffixes (choices, defaults).
  • Optional validation and transformation pipeline.
  • Robust Ctrl+C handling (raises ValueError)
  • Test-friendly: inject input_func to simulate answers.

Customizing colors

Prompter uses semantic roles mapped to the printer palette: - prompt → typically green - hint → typically blue - value → reset/plain - error → red - reset → terminal reset

Adjust them by editing ansi_colors.json, or create it with: 

from sciwork.console import ensure_ansi_colors
ensure_ansi_colors(prefer="project")  # writes <cwd>/sciwork/configs/ansi_colors.json