rednose is a nosetests plugin for adding colour (and readability) to nosetest console results.
pip install rednose
or from the source:
python setup.py install
Rednose officially supports Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5.
nosetests --rednose
or:
export NOSE_REDNOSE=1 nosetests
Rednose by default uses auto-colouring, which will only use colour if you're running it on a terminal (i.e not piping it to a file). To control colouring, use one of:
nosetests --rednose --force-color nosetests --no-color
(you can also control this by setting the environment variable NOSE_REDNOSE_COLOR to 'force' or 'no')
Rednose by default prints file paths relative to the working directory. If you want the full path in the traceback then use:
nosetests --rednose --full-file-path
Rednose by default prints error style formating for skipped tests, to supress this use:
nosetests --rednose --hide-skips
Rednose supports printing the test results mid run as well as at the end, to enable it use:
nosetests --rednose --immediate