Election vote-counting, result-posting chatbot

In preparation for the end of Code Review's 2015 election, I've built a simple bot to get the election votes, run OpenSTV on them, and post the result to a chatroom. I'm using this Python implementation of STV and ManishEarth's ChatExchange.

import getpass
import logging
import os
import time
import urllib
import sys
from subprocess import call

import ChatExchange.chatexchange
from ChatExchange.chatexchange.events import MessageEdited

logging.captureWarnings(True)

class bcolors:
    HEADER = '\033[95m'
    OKBLUE = '\033[94m'
    OKGREEN = '\033[92m'
    WARNING = '\033[93m'
    FAIL = '\033[91m'
    ENDC = '\033[0m'
    BOLD = '\033[1m'
    UNDERLINE = '\033[4m'

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.CRITICAL)

if 'ChatExchangeU' in os.environ:
    email = os.environ['ChatExchangeU']
else:
    email = raw_input("Email: ")
if 'ChatExchangeP' in os.environ:
    password = os.environ['ChatExchangeP']
else:
    password = getpass.getpass("Password: ")
client = ChatExchange.chatexchange.Client('stackexchange.com', email, password)

raw_input(bcolors.BOLD + bcolors.OKGREEN + "Connection good." + bcolors.ENDC + bcolors.BOLD + " [Enter] to proceed getting results for " + sys.argv[1] + " election #" + sys.argv[2] + "..." + bcolors.ENDC)

urllib.urlretrieve ("http://" + sys.argv[1] + "/election/download-result/" + sys.argv[2], "votes.blt")

result = os.popen("python runElection.py MeekSTV votes.blt").read()

os.remove("votes.blt")

result_indented = ""

for string in result.splitlines():
    result_indented = result_indented + "    " + string + "\n"

print result_indented

winners_line = ">" + result_indented.splitlines()[-1]

okay_to_post = raw_input("Okay to post? ")
if okay_to_post.lower() == "y":
    sandbox = client.get_room(sys.argv[3])
    sandbox.send_message(winners_line)
    sandbox.send_message(result_indented, False)

    time.sleep(40)

I run it from the command line like so:

python StackElectChat.py   

For example, running this:

```
python St

To address your first concern, the way you're doing colors is fine... If you're not running Windows. If you try to use raw ANSI codes like this on windows, you're going to run into some issues. Personally, I'd recommend using the Colorama. It's pretty easy to use. For example, if I wanted to print yellow text with a red background, I'd do this:

from colorama import init, Fore, Back

init()

print(Fore.YELLOW + Back.RED + "Text!")

Secondly, using str.lower on input, isn't really all that hacky, and it's done quite a lot when obtaining user input. In short, it's okay.

Finally, I'm noticing that you're using string concatenation to display variables in a string. The proper way to do this would be to use str.format. Here's how that'd be done:

# Normal str.format without positional or
# named parameters.
print "{} {}".format("Hello", "world")

# str.format with positional parameters (*args)
print "{1} {0}".format("world", "Hello")

# str.format with named parameters (**kwargs)
print "{word1} {word2}".format(word1="Hello", word2="world")

StackExchange Code Review Q#95728, answer score: 10