linux-kernel - Re: checkkconfigsymbols.py: add --no-color option

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Message-Id: <8ab63bee-b025-427d-b4db-b71e729aa36d@au1.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:22:05 +1000
From:	Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	valentinrothberg@...il.com
Subject: Re: checkkconfigsymbols.py: add --no-color option

On 04/07/16 22:24, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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.

That's a good point - I'll submit a v2 with that.

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited