Question

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.

Answer 1

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…