unittest colored output

Question

I use unittest (actually unittest2) for Python testing, together with Python Mock for mocking objects and nose to run all tests in a single pass.

Answer 1

Using a method very similar to robert's answer, I have (today!) released a package that enables colour output in unittest test results. I have called it colour-runner.

To install it, run:

pip install colour-runner

Then, where you were using unittest.TextTestRunner, use colour_runner.runner.ColourTextTestRunner instead.

See how it looks with verbosity=1...and verbosity=2

Answer 2

I've also found another colouring plugin for nose: YANC at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yanc

Works for me with Python 3.5 and nose 1.3.7 (I couldn't get any of the other options for nose listed above to work)

Answer 3

pytest can do this with no changes needed for unit tests.

Now install pytest.

pip install --user pytest

And run the tests to see the color!

Answer 4

I'm having good success with nosetests and rednose. It's still maintained at the time of writing this.

Answer 5

In python 2.x you could try pyrg. Does not work in Python 3 though.

Answer 6

Try rudolf plugin for nosetests.