Make colorama optional

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changelog
 
 ### 1.7 (December 22, 2013)
 
-* __1.7.5__ Return of colorama (for color on Windows), fixes editing (stops deleting entries instead of editing them), improves Windows documentation.
+* __1.7.5__ Optional return of colorama (for color on Windows), fixes editing (stops deleting entries instead of editing them), improves Windows documentation.
 * __1.7.4__ Gets rid of colorama.
 * __1.7.3__ Touches temporary files before opening them to allow more external editors.
 * __1.7.2__ Dateutil added to requirements.

docs/advanced.rst

@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ Windows Usage
 
 A couple of tips to get jrnl working better on Windows:
 
+To get colored output on Windows, install ``colorama`` ::
+
+    pip install colorama
+
 The configuration file is typically found at ``C:\Users\[Your Username\.jrnl_conf``. This is just a text file and so can be edited in a text editor (but don't use Notepad, it will mess with the line endings).
 
 For editing entries, Notepad will technically work, but doesn't play nice with line endings. A good alternative is `Notepad++ <http://notepad-plus-plus.org/>`_. To set Notepad++ as your editor, edit the jrnl config file (``.jrnl_conf``) like this:

jrnl/Journal.py

@@ -57,12 +57,6 @@ class Journal(object):
         """Returns the number of entries"""
         return len(self.entries)
 
-    def _colorize(self, string):
-        if colorama:
-            return colorama.Fore.CYAN + string + colorama.Fore.RESET
-        else:
-            return string
-
     def _decrypt(self, cipher):
         """Decrypts a cipher string using self.key as the key and the first 16 byte of the cipher as the IV"""
         if not crypto_installed:
@@ -174,11 +168,11 @@ class Journal(object):
                 for tag in self.search_tags:
                     tagre = re.compile(re.escape(tag), re.IGNORECASE)
                     pp = re.sub(tagre,
-                                lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
+                                lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
                                 pp, re.UNICODE)
             else:
                 pp = re.sub(r"(?u)([{tags}]\w+)".format(tags=self.config['tagsymbols']),
-                            lambda match: self._colorize(match.group(0)),
+                            lambda match: util.colorize(match.group(0)),
                             pp)
         return pp
 

jrnl/__init__.py

@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'jrnl'
-__version__ = '1.7.3'
+__version__ = '1.7.5'
 __author__ = 'Manuel Ebert'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
-__copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 Manuel Ebert'
+__copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013-14 Manuel Ebert'
 
 from . import Journal
 from . import cli

jrnl/util.py

@@ -139,3 +139,9 @@ def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
         prompt('[Nothing saved to file]')
     return raw
 
+def colorize(string):
+    """Returns the string wrapped in cyan ANSI escape"""
+    if os.name == "nt" and not colorama:
+        return string
+    else:
+        return u"\033[36m{}\033[39m".format(string)

requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 parsedatetime >= 1.1.2
 pytz >= 2013b
-colorama >= 0.2.5
 pycrypto >= 2.6
 argparse==1.2.1
 tzlocal == 1.0

setup.py

@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ setup(
         "slugify>=0.0.1",
         "keyring>=3.3",
         "python-dateutil>=2.2"
-        "colorama>=0.2.5",
         ] + [p for p, cond in conditional_dependencies.items() if cond],
     extras_require = {
         "encrypted": "pycrypto>=2.6"