PLEASE can someone do something about the utterly unreadable red font?

[Mrodent]

What's the problem this feature will solve?

I cannot read the red (non-bright red) font which pytest uses. I've tried changing the background of my CLI (NB OS is W10) but this is not a very satisfactory solution.

Describe the solution you'd like

Just allow users to use a font, ANY font, which is actually readable for explaining a fail encountered while testing.

Alternative Solutions

I've tried changing the background of my CLI command prompt window. This HORRIBLE dark red font is virtually unreadable against most backgrounds

[The-Compiler]

Duplicate of #6984. Note that the exact color is coming from your terminal, not from pytest - so you should be able to change it there somehow.

[Mrodent]

Yes, duplicate... um, with NO solution.

Two points:

1. this is W10, and I don't think opportunities for configuring this sort of thing in the CLI ("Command Prompt", "MS-DOS window" or whatever it is called) exist in the way they do in *nix.
2. somewhere in the pytest code, someone has consciously chosen this particular "colour directive" or whatever it is... Actually if you can tell me what file is involved maybe I can just dig into the thing and change it for something less absurdly illegible, possibly recompiling a file if I really have to...

[The-Compiler]

Yes, duplicate... um, with NO solution.

That doesn't change anything about an open duplicate issue not being helpful.

this is W10, and I don't think opportunities for configuring this sort of thing in the CLI ("Command Prompt", "MS-DOS window" or whatever it is called) exist in the way they do in *nix.

You should be able to set them in the cmd.exe properties:

or consider using the new Windows terminal which has config files for this kind of thing.

somewhere in the pytest code, someone has consciously chosen this particular "colour directive" or whatever it is... Actually if you can tell me what file is involved maybe I can just dig into the thing and change it for something less absurdly illegible, possibly recompiling a file if I really have to...

Search for red=True in the code.

[Mrodent]

Thanks for the heads up about what to look for.