Please provide a simple way to disable color about pp

[k0kubun]

If we stop deprecating pp.ColoringEnabled = false, would you use it?

As to this problem, now there's an officially blessed API: https://github.com/k0kubun/pp/releases/tag/v3.2.0

[jlearman]

Looks great, thanks!

Sorry I never followed up on the original request. @KEINOS is correct about what I was asking for, and I bet that dd would have been best for me at the time. I had been using pp for other purposes and came on a new case where I didn't want color (for logging, which needed to be readable when logged to file.)

[KEINOS]

As to this problem, now there's an officially blessed API: https://github.com/k0kubun/pp/releases/tag/v3.2.0

Wow!

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/Code-Hex/dd"
	"github.com/k0kubun/pp/v3"
)

func main() {
	sample := []string{
		"foo",
		"bar",
	}

	// pp
	{
		pp.Default.SetColoringEnabled(false)
		pp.Println(sample)
	}
	// dd
	{
		fmt.Println(dd.Dump(sample))
	}

	// Output:
	//
	// []string{
	//     "foo",
	//     "bar",
	// }
	// []string{
	//     "foo",
	//     "bar",
	// }
}

• View it online @ Go Playground

For my purposes this is simple and sufficient. How about you @jlearman?

@k0kubun Thank you very much! From now on, I will stick to pp 😉

[k0kubun]

Same as #66 (comment), please show us an example code you want to use. Otherwise, this issue is not actionable for anybody besides you.

[k0kubun]

Let's reopen this after your further clarification.

[KEINOS]

@jlearman You mean something like below, don't you?

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/Code-Hex/dd"
	"github.com/k0kubun/pp/v3"
)

func main() {
	sample := []string{
		"foo",
		"bar",
	}

	pp.Println(sample)
	fmt.Println(dd.Dump(sample))
}
// Output:
// []�[32mstring�[0m{
//   �[31m�[1m"�[0m�[31mfoo�[0m�[31m�[1m"�[0m,
//   �[31m�[1m"�[0m�[31mbar�[0m�[31m�[1m"�[0m,
// }
// []string{
//   "foo",
//   "bar",
// }

• View it online @ Go Playground

As described in the repository description, the pp package is dedicated to color text printing prettily. Therefore, for CUI purposes, pp is nice and simple.

However, when used as a dump in print-debug or GoPlayground, I recommend to use dd instead. I use them both though.

[k0kubun]

when used as a dump in print-debug

Any problem in pp for print debugging? It's the primary purpose of this library.

[KEINOS]

@k0kubun
Any problem in pp for print debugging?

No. Not at all.

But the issue is "a simple way to disable all color". And the answer seemed a bit mean to me, so I wanted to provoke and ask what kind of use cases @jlearman had in mind. That's why I posted "an example code that we want to use" as you mentioned. That's all. 😉

Even though pp is great and nice for printing debug-infos "in color", I believe there's no function that prints with no-color, out of the box. Such like dd.Dump does.

... ... or does it?

[k0kubun]

If we stop deprecating pp.ColoringEnabled = false, would you use it?

If it doesn't work, WDYT about each of the following options?

1. pp.WithColor(false).Println(...)
2. p.Println(...) (k0kubun/pp/p will be a package for non-colored output)
3. pp.Println(...) does not colorize outputs when the destination IO is not TTY (Sprint* should be kept colored, or just check stdout for convenience?)