[New-bugs-announce] [issue17647] subprocess.communicate() should preserve colored output on Windows

[Caitlin Potter]

New submission from Caitlin Potter:

In migrating from GNU autoconf/automake build systems to a python-based build system (Waf), I've been slightly annoyed that coloured text output from unit test programs is lost on the windows platform (the gtest framework uses ::SetConsoleTextAttribute on windows)

Ideally, the coloured output from the test sets would be preserved so that problems could be easily identified and stand out (See attached image for demonstration of problem)

This might be scoffed at as a minor problem because nobody uses SetConsoleTextAttribute anyways, and even if they do it would only affect the windows platform. But just the same, preserving coloured output on windows should be doable.

I'd be happy to work on a patch for this myself, but I'm new to the python tree and am not completely sure where to find what I'm looking for. I think an if mswindows: clause wherever stdout.read() is would probably work, but I'm not sure where that would be.

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components: IO, Windows
files: unit-tests.png
messages: 186168
nosy: Caitlin.Potter
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: subprocess.communicate() should preserve colored output on Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29699/unit-tests.png

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