Colorizing the output of Django tests

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Is there a way to colorize the Django test output? Basically a Red/Green factor for a pass or failing results?

I am on Mac OS X using Terminal.app.

injaon · Answer 1 · 2017-10-13T19:50:22.407

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redgreenunittests is the most simple solution and it works great with python 3.x

Install it

pip install redgreenunittest

add the next line into settings.py

TEST_RUNNER = "redgreenunittest.django.runner.RedGreenDiscoverRunner"

and don't forget to enjoy :)

./manage test

edited Oct 13 '17 at 19:50

answered Apr 07 '17 at 14:12

injaon

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Actually the package is redgreenunittest (even though the git repo has an "s"), so you'll want to run `pip install redgreenunittest`. – Greg Kaleka Oct 10 '17 at 15:59

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 12 '14 at 19:46

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I found pyrg to work quite well:

pyrg manage.py test

The required command can be installed with pip:

pip install pyrg

edited Nov 12 '14 at 19:46

answered Nov 27 '12 at 19:48

Ropez

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This didnt work for me on python3x. on OSX..pip install pyrg Collecting pyrg Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5c/e0/ed29cec7b1ffae0ca97f0f560b8bf2265d42ead6047adcb759a1b0af6870/pyrg-0.2.6.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: File "", line 1, in File "/private/var/folders/0w/9y11s6qj6tvg2q3rzvgn7ytr0000gn/T/pip-install-armngvjd/pyrg/setup.py", line 7, in import pyrg File "pyrg/pyrg.py", line 226 ^ – Stryker Oct 05 '18 at 18:17

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '14 at 03:26

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I know this is an old question, but django-rainbowtests aims to do this. Failures and Errors are Red, Success is green, and it highlights your project's code in larger stack traces.

answered Jul 19 '14 at 03:26

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '12 at 19:19

If you're already using Fabric for deployment, you can use this snippet from @codeinthehole's blog post:

from fabric.colors import _wrap_with

green_bg = _wrap_with('42')
red_bg = _wrap_with('41')

# Set the list of apps to test
env.test_apps = "app1 app2"

def test():
    with settings(warn_only=True):
        result = local('./manage.py test %(test_apps)s --settings=settings_test -v 2 --failfast' % env, capture=False)
    if result.failed:
        print red_bg("Some tests failed")
    else:
        print green_bg("All tests passed - have a banana!")

It doesn't colorise the individual test outputs, but it does give you immediate red / green satisfaction...

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered May 11 '13 at 14:47

If you're not using Fabric, you might like redgreenunittest. Basically, you just put it in the appropriate place in your project (probably in your virtual environment), and then reference it as your TEST_RUNNER in your settings like this:

TEST_RUNNER="redgreenunittest.django.simple.RedGreenTestSuiteRunner"

If you're only using Django's test helper code (mostly django.test.TestCase), then that should do it. otherwise you may need to reference redgreenunittest directly like so:

import redgreenunittest as unittest

Then you just run your tests. And they'll have colors. Like magic.

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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Take a look at Print in terminal with colors using Python?. You should be able to modify or roll out your own colorization from there.

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answered Oct 19 '11 at 02:10

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There's also a package that does this quite easily called colorama (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama) – Kenny Shen Jan 05 '12 at 08:39

score 1 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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I found a possible solution, called pyrg, in this question. Unfortunately, didn't work as expected for me.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered May 22 '12 at 12:46

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Colorizing the output of Django tests

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