[issue17647] subprocess.communicate() should preserve colored output on Windows

[Caitlin Potter]

Caitlin Potter added the comment:

Then perhaps nothing can be done from the python side of things, that's too
bad.

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Richard Oudkerk <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Richard Oudkerk added the comment:
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> On 07/04/2013 9:02pm, Caitlin Potter wrote:
> > I'm not entirely positive that it would be doable, but looking at the
> > subprocess code, it looks like we do have an open handle to the windows
> > stdout buffer, including buffer attributes, so it should be possible to
> > translate coloured attributes into ANSI codes,
>
> The handle for stdout is just the readable end of a pipe.  It is not a
> console, GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() will not work with it, and there
> are no coloured attributes associated with it.
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