From 377269e4fd2d30d51f1ab4f83e048a0c210eced5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:35:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gh-127060: Disable traceback colors in IDLE (GH-128028) Set TERM environment variable to "dumb" to disable traceback colors in IDLE, since IDLE doesn't understand ANSI escape sequences. (cherry picked from commit 559b0e7013f9cbf42a12fe9c86048d5cbb2f6f22) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner --- Lib/idlelib/pyshell.py | 4 +++- .../Library/2024-12-17-13-21-52.gh-issue-127060.mv2bX6.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-12-17-13-21-52.gh-issue-127060.mv2bX6.rst diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/pyshell.py b/Lib/idlelib/pyshell.py index e882c6cb3b8d19..66fbbd4a97b7af 100755 --- a/Lib/idlelib/pyshell.py +++ b/Lib/idlelib/pyshell.py @@ -424,7 +424,9 @@ def __init__(self, tkconsole): def spawn_subprocess(self): if self.subprocess_arglist is None: self.subprocess_arglist = self.build_subprocess_arglist() - self.rpcsubproc = subprocess.Popen(self.subprocess_arglist) + # gh-127060: Disable traceback colors + env = dict(os.environ, TERM='dumb') + self.rpcsubproc = subprocess.Popen(self.subprocess_arglist, env=env) def build_subprocess_arglist(self): assert (self.port!=0), ( diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-12-17-13-21-52.gh-issue-127060.mv2bX6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-12-17-13-21-52.gh-issue-127060.mv2bX6.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..1da89e7a282147 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-12-17-13-21-52.gh-issue-127060.mv2bX6.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Set TERM environment variable to "dumb" to disable traceback colors in IDLE, +since IDLE doesn't understand ANSI escape sequences. Patch by Victor Stinner.