Fixed colorized output on Windows with Python 3.

Closes #87.

README.rst

@@ -957,6 +957,8 @@ Changelog
 *You can click a version name to see a diff with the previous one.*
 
 * `0.2.8dev`_
+    * Fixed colorized output on Windows with Python 3.
+    * Fixed installation on Windows with Python 3.
     * CRLF HTTP header field separation in the output.
     * Added exit status code ``2`` for timed-out requests.
     * Added ``--colors`` and ``--format`` in addition to ``--pretty``, to

httpie/core.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Invocation flow:
     5. Exit.
 
 """
-from _socket import gaierror
 import sys
 import json
 import errno
@@ -18,14 +17,14 @@ from pprint import pformat
 
 import requests
 import requests.auth
-from requests.compat import str
+from requests.compat import str, is_py3
 from httpie import __version__ as httpie_version
 from requests import __version__ as requests_version
 from pygments import __version__ as pygments_version
 
 from .cli import parser
 from .models import Environment
-from .output import output_stream, write
+from .output import output_stream, write, write_with_colors_win_p3k
 from . import EXIT
 
 
@@ -115,19 +114,20 @@ def main(args=sys.argv[1:], env=Environment()):
     status = EXIT.OK
 
     if debug:
-        sys.stderr.write('HTTPie version: %s\n' % httpie_version)
+        sys.stderr.write('HTTPie %s\n' % httpie_version)
-        sys.stderr.write('Requests version: %s\n' % requests_version)
+        sys.stderr.write('Requests %s\n' % requests_version)
-        sys.stderr.write('Pygments version: %s\n' % pygments_version)
+        sys.stderr.write('Pygments %s\n' % pygments_version)
+        sys.stderr.write('Python %s %s\n' % (sys.version, sys.platform))
 
     try:
         args = parser.parse_args(args=args, env=env)
-        kwargs = get_requests_kwargs(args)
+        requests_kwargs = get_requests_kwargs(args)
 
         if args.debug:
             sys.stderr.write(
-                '\n>>> requests.request(%s)\n\n' % pformat(kwargs))
+                '\n>>> requests.request(%s)\n\n' % pformat(requests_kwargs))
 
-        response = requests.request(**kwargs)
+        response = requests.request(**requests_kwargs)
 
         if args.check_status:
             status = get_exist_status(response.status_code,
@@ -137,10 +137,16 @@ def main(args=sys.argv[1:], env=Environment()):
 
         stream = output_stream(args, env, response.request, response)
 
+        write_kwargs = {
+            'stream': stream,
+            'outfile': env.stdout,
+            'flush': env.stdout_isatty or args.stream
+        }
         try:
-            write(stream=stream,
+            if env.is_windows and is_py3 and 'colors' in args.prettify:
-                  outfile=env.stdout,
+                write_with_colors_win_p3k(**write_kwargs)
-                  flush=env.stdout_isatty or args.stream)
+            else:
+                write(**write_kwargs)
 
         except IOError as e:
             if not traceback and e.errno == errno.EPIPE:

httpie/models.py

@@ -18,14 +18,16 @@ class Environment(object):
     if progname not in ['http', 'https']:
         progname = 'http'
 
-    if is_windows:
-        import colorama.initialise
-        colorama.initialise.init()
-
     stdin_isatty = sys.stdin.isatty()
     stdin = sys.stdin
     stdout_isatty = sys.stdout.isatty()
-    stdout = sys.stdout
+
+    if stdout_isatty and is_windows:
+        from colorama.initialise import wrap_stream
+        stdout = wrap_stream(sys.stdout, convert=None,
+                             strip=None, autoreset=True, wrap=True)
+    else:
+        stdout = sys.stdout
     stderr = sys.stderr
 
     # Can be set to 0 to disable colors completely.

httpie/output.py

@@ -61,6 +61,23 @@ def write(stream, outfile, flush):
             outfile.flush()
 
 
+def write_with_colors_win_p3k(stream, outfile, flush):
+    """Like `write`, but colorized chunks are written as text
+    directly to `outfile` to ensure it gets processed by colorama.
+    Applies only to Windows with Python 3 and colorized terminal output.
+
+    """
+    color = b'\x1b['
+    encoding = outfile.encoding
+    for chunk in stream:
+        if color in chunk:
+            outfile.write(chunk.decode(encoding))
+        else:
+            outfile.buffer.write(chunk)
+        if flush:
+            outfile.flush()
+
+
 def output_stream(args, env, request, response):
     """Build and return a chain of iterators over the `request`-`response`
     exchange each of which yields `bytes` chunks.

tests/tests.py

@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from urllib2 import urlopen
 try:
-    from unittest import skipIf
+    from unittest import skipIf, skip
 except ImportError:
-
+    skip = lambda msg: lambda self: None
     def skipIf(cond, reason):
         def decorator(test_method):
             if cond:
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ from requests import __version__ as requests_version
 from requests.compat import is_windows, is_py26, bytes, str
 
 
-
 #################################################################
 # Utils/setup
 #################################################################
@@ -863,6 +862,7 @@ class ExitStatusTest(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(r.exit_status, EXIT.OK)
         self.assertTrue(not r.stderr)
 
+    @skip('httpbin.org always returns 500')
     def test_timeout_exit_status(self):
         r = http(
             '--timeout=0.5',
@@ -917,6 +917,15 @@ class ExitStatusTest(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(r.exit_status, EXIT.ERROR_HTTP_5XX)
 
 
+class WindowsOnlyTests(BaseTestCase):
+
+    @skip('FIXME: kills the runner')
+    #@skipIf(not is_windows, 'windows-only')
+    def test_windows_colorized_output(self):
+        # Spits out the colorized output.
+        http(httpbin('/get'), env=Environment())
+
+
 class FakeWindowsTest(BaseTestCase):
 
     def test_stdout_redirect_not_supported_on_windows(self):