Commit 12615dab authored by Ramiro Morales's avatar Ramiro Morales
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Fixed #13476 -- Added support for color in console output under Windows. 

Detect and use the services of the ANSICON third-party tool if it's
available.
parent c75dd664

django/core/management/color.py

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@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ def supports_color(): 
    Returns True if the running system's terminal supports color, and False

    otherwise.

    """

    unsupported_platform = (sys.platform in ('win32', 'Pocket PC'))

    plat = sys.platform

    supported_platform = plat != 'Pocket PC' and (plat != 'win32' or

                                                  'ANSICON' in os.environ)

    # isatty is not always implemented, #6223.

    is_a_tty = hasattr(sys.stdout, 'isatty') and sys.stdout.isatty()

    if unsupported_platform or not is_a_tty:

    if not supported_platform or not is_a_tty:

        return False

    return True

docs/ref/django-admin.txt

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@@ -1552,6 +1552,11 @@ color-coded output if your terminal supports ANSI-colored output. It 
won't use the color codes if you're piping the command's output to

another program.



Under Windows, the native console doesn't support ANSI escape sequences so by

default there is no color output. But you can install the `ANSICON`_

third-party tool, the Django commands will detect its presence and will make

use of its services to color output just like on Unix-based platforms.



The colors used for syntax highlighting can be customized. Django

ships with three color palettes:
@@ -1636,6 +1641,14 @@ would specify the use of all the colors in the light color palette, 
*except* for the colors for errors and notices which would be

overridden as specified.



.. versionadded:: 1.7



Support for color-coded output from ``django-admin.py`` / ``manage.py``

utilities on Windows by relying on the ANSICON application was added in Django

1.7.



.. _ANSICON: http://adoxa.hostmyway.net/ansicon/



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docs/releases/1.7.txt

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@@ -415,6 +415,9 @@ Management Commands 
  * All HTTP requests are logged to the console, including requests for static

    files or ``favicon.ico`` that used to be filtered out.



* Management commands can now produce syntax colored output under Windows if

  the ANSICON third-party tool is installed and active.



Models

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