ANSI escape character sequences are printed in Windows cmd.exe when outputting to stderr

[lpinner]

I'm stuck using Windows :(for work).

The ANSI escape character sequences are printed in Windows cmd.exe when outputting to stderr.

#test.py
import daiquiri
daiquiri.setup()
logger = daiquiri.getLogger()
logger.error("something went wrong")

I can workaround using colorama (the library that IPython uses).

#test_colour.py
import colorama 
colorama.init()

import daiquiri
daiquiri.setup()
logger = daiquiri.getLogger()
logger.error("something went wrong")

Colours also work when script is run using ipython as colorama is being used automatically (i.e. ipython test.py).

Is there a way to tell daiquiri not to output colour escape chars?
Even better ; ), would you consider using colorama as an optional extra?

[jd]

Oh we should definitely switch to colorama. @blakev maybe you should take a look into that for https://github.com/jd/daiquiri/pull/9 ?

[blakev]

For sure, if you're not against adding the dependency.

[jd]

No, all good for me. Worst thing we could make it optional, but well. It's a common use case.

[eli-b]

Once colorama is used, you can document that Windows is supported in setup.cfg.