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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	valentinrothberg@gmail.com
Subject: Re: checkkconfigsymbols.py: add --no-color option
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 05:24:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160704122415.GA7267@x> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467621570-970-1-git-send-email-andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 06:39:30PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> Add a new option, --no-color, to get rid of ANSI colour escape codes in the
> output. Useful if redirecting output to a file or piping to another script.
> 
> (It should really be --no-colour, but I'll accept US spelling in the name
> of consistency with existing usage in the code comments...)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>

Rather than requiring an explicit option, how about detecting
whether stdout is a TTY and automatically suppressing color?
You could check "os.isatty(1)" in main(), and set a global "color =
False".  That would automatically handle the cases of redirecting to a
file or piping to another script, without requiring the user to pass
--no-color.

- Josh Triplett

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-04 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04  8:39 [PATCH] checkkconfigsymbols.py: add --no-color option Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-04 10:44 ` Valentin Rothberg
2016-07-04 12:24 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2016-07-05  7:22   ` Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-05  7:47 ` [PATCH v2] checkkconfigsymbols.py: add --no-color option, don't print color to non-TTY Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-05  8:45   ` Valentin Rothberg
2016-08-16  8:25   ` Valentin Rothberg
2016-08-16 10:49     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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