How to set the text color of a textobject using reportlab pdfgen

Question

I was recently looking for the function needed to set a textobject's text color. The textobject is a specific method of working with reportlab's pdfgen. The documentation has some information, but it's pretty unclear.

Starting code:

textobject = canvas.beginText()
textobject.textOut("Example Text")
canvas.drawText(textobject)

Answer 1

Use the setFillColorRGB() function to change the color. The function takes 3 values (red, green, blue) and expects the values to be 0-1.

Example:

textobject = canvas.beginText()
textobject.setFillColorRGB(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) #grey text
textobject.textOut("Example Text")
canvas.drawText(textobject)