gh-149026: Add colour to pickletools CLI output

[hugovk]

Create a pickle file, for example:

import pickle

data = {
    "a": [1, 2.0, 3 + 4j],
    "b": ("character string", b"byte string"),
    "c": {None, True, False},
}

with open("data.pickle", "wb") as f:
    pickle.dump(data, f, protocol=5)

Then ./python.exe -m pickletools data.pickle:

• Issue: Add colour to pickletools CLI output #149026

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[hugovk]

Aside: the alignment is the same in main without colour, and the code says:

            # make a mild effort to align arguments
            ...
            # make a mild effort to align annotations
            ...

If someone's up for making a bit less mild effort in another PR, go for it!

[picnixz]

Can we have the instruction names in white (no color)? I find it less readable with colors as all instructions have the same color.

[hugovk]

Like this?

Or I think bold cyan is better?

[picnixz]

IMO, too many colors hurt more than they help. White is not that good either actually... I do like the colors for literals and the first column but I feel that colors for instruction names are always too much because it's just adding colors to words that will anyway be classified identically.

Alternatively, how about some "dead" words such as MARK/NONE etc and add categorize the opcodes themselves into colorized categories. This could help a bit more visually (e.g., I want to locate all MARK, whether I use colors or not now I won't be able to find it easily without a CTRL+F).

[hugovk]

Something like this?

[picnixz]

Much better IMO! I would suggest not having colors for opcodes that have a colored literal (like SHORT_BINUNICODE). WDYT?

[hugovk]

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Or we could stripe it to match the value? But give the mild attempt at alignment, maybe they're a bit too close.

[picnixz]

Or we could stripe it to match the value? But give the mild attempt at alignment, maybe they're a bit too close.

It would require a bit more effort to parse the literal in this case. I think the no-color option is better IMO. FTR, the MARK can be in gray as the PROTO because each MARK is followed by an indent I thnk.

[hugovk]

MARK in grey:

[picnixz]

I like those colors, at least they are more readable to me (and I have very poor eyesight). What about light theme though?

[hugovk]

[picnixz]

I find the colors much readable now! thanks for the work