Formatting broken when using ansi colours about tabwriter HOT 8 CLOSED

I'm not sure how this could be reasonably expected to work. tabwriter doesn't know or care about ANSI escape sequences, so it treats each character in the escape sequence as just another character. This probably results in tabwriter thinking that the output is much wider than it is actually displayed in the terminal. Indeed, that is probably why you're observing the plain "Title" headings so far apart while the values are closer together.

I don't have any good ideas for a work-around.

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I guess we can create a list/set with all the ANSI escape codes and remove them from the original string beforetabwriter is calculating the length of each word between tabs. I did no check the code but I guess this can be done. I can read a bit about the ANSI escape codes and try to create a patch.

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That seems possible.

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Fixed in df39660

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is this still supposed to work? I am getting wildly different tab lengths when adding color in v1.0.3

Thanks

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@vitiral Please file a new issue with a reproducible example.

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will do, thanks

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I'm an idiot, I missed the ansi_formatting feature. Now it works great!

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