colors of terminal multiplied for each testcase (terminal output) about avocado HOT 5 CLOSED

Hello Jan,

what exactly is the problem? When you run avocado interactively in terminal (with terminal support) it displays the throbber, which is the little rotating -. You can see it in the output, first test run <3s and has -\ in the output. The second test run <5s and has |/-\ in the output. What you don't see in the output is the \b character, which removes the previous character and overwrites it. So it seems that your terminal doesn't support the \b and keeps all of the char in the output.

Can you give us the environment? What terminal do you use, is it run through some logging server (beaker?) and what do you actually expect? One way to avoid using throbber (and fancy colors) is to use TERM=none avocado run ....

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The problem is that we seem to be accumulating color sequence codes on each label:

1. 1st test: 1 sequence
2. 2nd test: 2 sequences
3. 3rd test: 3 sequences

This seems to be an actual bug.

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Hmmm, or this is simply the throbber, like you suggested, and this is not a bug. Now I'm curious as to how to reproduce this.

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Yep, nevermind my first comment, sorry:

MOVE_BACK = '\033[1D'
MOVE_FORWARD = '\033[1C'

This is clearly throbber output that got recorded into his log file. @jscotka, you should use the trick @ldoktor proposed

export TERM=none; scripts/avocado run passtest

So that we can close this issue.

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Hi,
thanks for explanation. I've missed that it is rotating char, not coloring. I had fear that I found the bug :-)

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