feature request: force colours

[sinux-l5d]

Hi,

I have a special case where I pipe my script using termcolor to fzf --ansi to keep colours. But it seems that _can_do_colour() wants stdout to be interactive, so this is not possible for now.

Would it be possible to init the module with forced colours?

[hugovk]

It's possible by setting the FORCE_COLOR environment variable. Is that suitable for you?

I'm considering also adding force_color and no_color parameters, which could help #28 (comment) and #2 (comment) respectively.

[sinux-l5d]

Works like a charm!
But indeed a parameter would be more suitable in some cases, when you want to pass an option to a script instead of prefixing it with a shell variable.
That will be ok in my case, thanks :D

[hugovk]

Please see PR #38 to add parameters to override the environment variables.

[GergelyKalmar]

This would be very useful for me as well – in pytest-logikal I'm running some checks in a (non-interactive) subprocess but I'd still like to have the output be colored when collecting the results. Would there be any chance to merge PR #38 and release it?

[hugovk]

Yes, I'll merge it now and release it in the next day or two, hopefully we can include #44 as well.

[GergelyKalmar]

That would be totally awesome! Thank you very much.

[hugovk]

Released:

https://pypi.org/project/termcolor/2.3.0/

https://github.com/termcolor/termcolor/releases/tag/2.3.0

🚀

[doniks]

are these options documented somewhere?

[hugovk]

They're not, and they should be. Thanks for the prompt, I'll open an issue to make sure they're added.

[hugovk]

Please see PR #60.