The output of honcho looks weird about honcho HOT 7 CLOSED

Yes, that looks like the ANSI escape sequences to do with colouring. There's currently no command-line option to disable colour, but adding it is probably a relatively simple patch.

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it doesn't look like I can attach a PR to this issue since I didn't open it, but here is my solution to this problem.

Juvenal1228/honcho@98fc31820f991f810f4efcd0028bb0257ac35aad

I don't see the need for a command line argument to disable color since most every shell will handle color fine except on windows. You could also use sys.stdout.isatty() on linux to determine whether or not to use color, since this would allow output redirection for logging etc to work properly and not display the ANSI color escape garbage

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@Juvenal1228 : thanks for the patch: this looks good and simple enough yet it likely wrecks havoc in the tests that expect a color escape sequence in the output for now... have you run the tests with this patch?

btw, not being able to attach a commit to an issue is a quirk of github... feel free to start a new pull request and we can ref this issue in the new issue that will be automatically created. there are ways around this explained here FWIW, but this requires extra tool: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4528869/how-do-you-attach-a-new-pull-request-to-an-existing-issue-on-github

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Quick question: won't this disable colour in ANSI-capable shells that happen to be running on Windows? (such as Cygwin bash)

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I'm thinking the correct solution here would probably be to depend on colorama which claims to provide cross-platform coloured output just by adding

import colorama
colorama.init()

to Honcho. @pombredanne would you be up for trying this out?

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let me try that and report

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Finally fixed in v0.6.2 (by a1b2cb5).

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