Appearance Utilities## Appearance Guide

The appearance of a segment is defined by a dictionary of the following format:

{
    "base_color": "#000000",
    "parallelstripe": ["#000000", "#000000"],
    "perpstripe": ["#000000", "#000000"],
    "twisted": null
}

Arguments

Required - base_color: exactly one value

Optional - parallelstripe: 0+ values (list) - perpstripe: 0+ values (list) - twisted: 0–1 value (null, "RH", or "LH") - outline_color: 0–1 value

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Commands:

Use the following functions by first importing the module in your script like this:

from harnice.lists import appearance

then use as written.

appearance.parse(val)

Parse appearance dictionary, converting color names and shorthand hex to full hex. No validation or safeguards.