Colored terminal output ignores reset sequence. Color continues

Question

I fiddled with this for a couple of hours and couldn't find a solution...

Lets say I print this to a terminal (tested with bash and zsh in a genome-terminal in a VM running a fresh Linux Mint):

python3
print("\033[41mFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\033[0m BAR")

• \033[41m enables a red background for the text that follows.
• \033[0m resets the background to the default.
• Assume that there are enough O's to generate an output which fills exactly one and a half lines in the terminal.

In a fresh terminal the output looks like this (like I expected):

|FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|
|=================================|
|OOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAR               |
|==============                   |
|                                 |

• Every char that is underlined with a = has a red background.
• | Defines the border of the terminal.

So we see FOO... with a red background and BAR without a red background.

If I run the command again I get this:

|FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|
|=================================|
|OOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAR               |
|==============    ===============|
|                                 |

After BAR the line continues to be red... and I have no clue why? Any idea?

Answer 1

iTerm2 on Mac OS X also does this when the colored text wraps past the available columns. One workaround may be to erase to the end-of-the-line after writing BAR via the CSI Ps K Erase in Line (EL) control sequence, e.g.

$ perl -e 'print "\e[41m".("a"x120)."\e[0mBAR\e[K"'