tests/test-ui-color.py

py3: call codecs.escape_encode() directly

string_escape doesn't exist on Python 3, but fortunately the undocumented
codecs.escape_encode() function exists on CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.5 and PyPy 5.6.
So let's use it for now.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23151714

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import os
from mercurial import (
    dispatch,
    ui as uimod,
)

# ensure errors aren't buffered
testui = uimod.ui()
testui.pushbuffer()
testui.write(('buffered\n'))
testui.warn(('warning\n'))
testui.write_err('error\n')
print(repr(testui.popbuffer()))

# test dispatch.dispatch with the same ui object
hgrc = open(os.environ["HGRCPATH"], 'w')
hgrc.write('[extensions]\n')
hgrc.write('color=\n')
hgrc.close()

ui_ = uimod.ui.load()
ui_.setconfig('ui', 'formatted', 'True')

# we're not interested in the output, so write that to devnull
ui_.fout = open(os.devnull, 'w')

# call some arbitrary command just so we go through
# color's wrapped _runcommand twice.
def runcmd():
    dispatch.dispatch(dispatch.request(['version', '-q'], ui_))

runcmd()
print("colored? %s" % (ui_._colormode is not None))
runcmd()
print("colored? %s" % (ui_._colormode is not None))