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@@ -375,15 +375,15 @@ If you want to override this--like if you anticipate your program being piped through ``less -r``, which handles terminal escapes just fine--pass ``force_styling=True`` to the ``Terminal`` constructor. -In any case, there is an ``is_a_tty`` attribute on ``Terminal`` that lets you -see whether the attached stream seems to be a terminal. If it's false, you -might refrain from drawing progress bars and other frippery, since you're -apparently headed into a pipe:: +In any case, there is a ``does_styling`` attribute on ``Terminal`` that lets +you see whether your capabilities will return actual, working formatting codes. +If it's false, you should refrain from drawing progress bars and other frippery +and just stick to content, since you're apparently headed into a pipe:: from blessings import Terminal term = Terminal() - if term.is_a_tty: + if term.does_styling: with term.location(0, term.height - 1): print 'Progress: [=======> ]' print term.bold('Important stuff') @@ -433,6 +433,10 @@ Blessings is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file. Version History =============== +1.6 + * Add ``does_styling`` attribute. This takes ``force_styling`` into account + and should replace most uses of ``is_a_tty``. + 1.5.1 * Clean up fabfile, removing the redundant ``test`` command. * Add Travis support. |