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

[Richard Oudkerk]

Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

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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