Warning

Most of the documentation was written prior to version 0.5 and needs to be updated. This work has now started for version 0.7 and we aim to have it completed before version 0.8 is available.

Visual Studio Code’s terminal¶

You can start the friendly console in Visual Studio Code’s terminal in the same way as mentioned before:

python -m friendly

Screen capture showing VS code terminal in dark mode

This is designed for a dark coloured terminal; the closer the background to your chosen VS code theme is to black, the better it likely will look. For the theme we use, the background colour is #1e1e1e instead of pure black (#000000). It is however possible to specify a background colour to use, with:

python -m friendly --background #1e1e1e

Screen capture showing VS code terminal with custom background

If you use a light coloured theme, you should use the following instead:

python -m friendly –formatter light

And here is the result:

Screen capture showing VS code terminal in light mode

Just like in the previous case, you could specify a background colour of your choice.