commit 3e5d90133cd22bc740f6b3b25da032461999b96d
Author: smol snail <6765737-smolsnail@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 9 14:15:59 2021 -0800

    Initial commit

diff --git a/pat.py b/pat.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+from sys import stdin, argv
+from string import whitespace
+
+# These next 2 lines of code are only for ANSI escape support on Windows cmd prompt/powershell
+# If you do not use cmd/ps, you can comment them out or remove them
+from os import system
+system("")
+
+color_info = {"amount": 299, "max_rgb_value": 255}
+color_info["per_stage"] = (color_info["amount"] + 1) // 3
+color_info["min_rgb_value"] = color_info["max_rgb_value"] - color_info["per_stage"]
+
+if len(argv) == 1:
+    argv.append("-")
+
+for argument in argv[1:]:
+    read_result = stdin.read() if argument == "-" else open(argument, "r").read()
+    color_info["changes"] = len(list(filter(lambda c: not c in whitespace, read_result))) - 1
+    color_info["step"] = (
+        0
+        if color_info["changes"] == 0
+        else color_info["amount"] / color_info["changes"]
+    )
+    color_info["index"] = 0
+
+    for character in read_result:
+        if character in whitespace:
+            print(character, end="")
+            continue
+
+        color_value = round(color_info["index"])
+        value_modifier = color_value % color_info["per_stage"]
+        rgb_values = [
+            color_info["min_rgb_value"] + value_modifier,
+            color_info["max_rgb_value"] - value_modifier,
+            color_info["min_rgb_value"],
+        ]
+        [red, green, blue] = [
+            [rgb_values[1], rgb_values[0], rgb_values[2]],
+            rgb_values[::-1],
+            [rgb_values[0], rgb_values[2], rgb_values[1]],
+        ][color_value // color_info["per_stage"]]
+
+        print("\x1b[38;2;%d;%d;%dm%s" % (red, green, blue, character), end="")
+        color_info["index"] += color_info["step"]