InkyPhat - Change font colour in Python based on value?

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Can anyone suggest how I can amend this code to print the string in red if it’s a negative value (contains “-”) or in black if it’s positive (no “-”).

I tried to set a variable ‘colour’ as ‘1’ or ‘2’ and then use that variable name in the inkyphat.text lines but it doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks.

import inkyphat
from PIL import ImageFont

mystr1 ="10,000" 
mystr2 ="-10,000"

font_file = inkyphat.fonts.ocraextended
font_size = 32
  
top = 0
left = 0
offset_left = 0

inkyphat.rectangle([(0, 0), (212, 104)], fill=inkyphat.WHITE, outline=None)
 
font = inkyphat.ImageFont.truetype(font_file, font_size)
width, height = font.getsize(mystr1)
inkyphat.text((0, top), mystr1, 1, font=font) #Prints in red
top += height + 1
left = max(left, offset_left + width)
 
font = inkyphat.ImageFont.truetype(font_file, font_size)
width, height = font.getsize(mystr2)
inkyphat.text((0, top), mystr2, 2, font=font) #Prints in black
top += height + 2
left = max(left, offset_left + width)

inkyphat.set_rotation(180)
inkyphat.set_colour('red')
inkyphat.show()
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One way to do it is
if x < 0
print in red code here
elif x >= 0
print in black code here