Status of Ledborg

This should be nice and simple, below are examples for Python and the Linux terminal.

From Python:

LedBorg = open('/dev/ledborg', 'r')
colour = LedBorg.read()
LedBorg.close()
print colour

Directly from a terminal window:
cat /dev/ledborg

This should return the code number (e.g. 200), if you want to return a colour name you will need some kind of decode of the colour number back to a name from python, e.g.

LedBorg = open('/dev/ledborg', 'r')
colour = LedBorg.read()
LedBorg.close()
if colour == "200":
    name = "Red"
elif colour == "222":
    name = "White"
else:
    name = "?"
print name

or

colourNames = {
    "200":"Red",
    "222":"White"
}
LedBorg = open('/dev/ledborg', 'r')
colour = LedBorg.read()
LedBorg.close()
if colourNames.has_key(colour):
    name =colourNames[colour]
else:
    name = "?"
print name

Hopefully that helps you :)

Just in case you still want help with this, we put out a Mecha Monday script today for this purpose
WhatIsYourColour.py