Make rasa cli have an option to turn off colors

[hsm207]

What problem are you trying to solve?

I want to ran rasa data validate in my pipeline and print the results as a comment in a PR. I save the results in a file like this:

rasa data validate --quiet 2>&1 | tee data-validate.log

The problem is that the ANSI code are saved as part of the output and it makes the results hard to read.

The workaround is to do this:

rasa data validate --quiet 2>&1 | tee data-validate.log |
sed 's/\x1b[[0-9;]*m//g' >
data-validate-no-color.log

What's your suggested solution?

rasa data validate --no-colors

Examples (if relevant)

No response

Is anything blocking this from being implemented? (if relevant)

No

Definition of Done

data-validate.log from rasa data validate --no-colors --quiet 2>&1 | tee data-validate.log does not have ANSI color code.

[thiagohdaqw]

Hi there
Is this still relevant? I think i can work on it

[virtualroot]

Please consider using NO_COLOR envvar.

https://no-color.org/

[thiagohdaqw]

This is a good name for an envvar. It is also used in coloredlogs to disable colors. Thanks, @virtualroot!

https://coloredlogs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=no_color#environment-variables

[sync-by-unito]

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