Behavior changes based on presense of colorama

Without colorama installed, the provided ColoredFormatter will always use colors, even when redirected to a file (ie. $ ./command.py 2> error_out.txt)

When colorama is installed, colorama detects a non-tty, and strips the colors.

Since colorlog provides a TTYColoredFormater that will strip colors for a non-tty, the above behavior seems not only inconsistent, but unintended. (ie. the user chooses stripping for non-tty by choosing TTYColoredFormater instead of ColoredFormatter, not by having or not having colorama installed.)

I therefore suggest that the colorama init should be called as: colorama.init(strip=False) or minimally some other option should be available to colorlog users to ‘force’ colors or prevent stripping.

I like my logs to have color even when redirected to files. Using ‘less -R’ let’s you still benefit from the colors when reviewing the output.

[borntyping]

Not sure what happened to the commit in #41. I don’t currently have a setup that I can build and publish colorlog with, so I won’t be able to fix this until next week.

[dimrozakis]

thanks @borntyping