remove colorama

CHANGES.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Version 8.5.0
 
 Unreleased
 
+-   Supported versions of Windows enable ANSI terminal styles by default.
+    Colorama is no longer a dependency and is not used. :issue:`2986` :pr:`3505`
+
 
 Version 8.4.2
 -------------

docs/quickstart.md

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ Some standalone examples of Click applications are packaged with Click. They are
   performs custom validation of parameters in different ways.
 - [naval](https://github.com/pallets/click/tree/main/examples/naval) : Port of the [docopt](http://docopt.org/) naval
   example.
-- [colors](https://github.com/pallets/click/tree/main/examples/colors) : A simple example that colorizes text. Uses
-  colorama on Windows.
+- [colors](https://github.com/pallets/click/tree/main/examples/colors) : A simple example that colorizes text.
 - [aliases](https://github.com/pallets/click/tree/main/examples/aliases) : An advanced example that implements
   {ref}`aliases`.
 - [imagepipe](https://github.com/pallets/click/tree/main/examples/imagepipe) : A complex example that implements some
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ What this means is that the {func}`echo` function applies some error correction
 instead of dying with a {exc}`UnicodeError`.
 
 The echo function also supports color and other styles in output. It will automatically remove styles if the output
-stream is a file. On Windows, colorama is automatically installed and used. See {ref}`ansi-colors`.
+stream is a file. See {ref}`ansi-colors`.
 
 If you don't need this, you can also use the `print()` construct / function.
 

docs/utils.md

@@ -52,16 +52,21 @@ click.echo('Hello World!', err=True)
 ```{versionadded} 2.0
 ```
 
-The {func}`echo` function supports ANSI colors and styles. On Windows this uses [colorama](https://pypi.org/project/colorama/).
+The {func}`echo` function supports ANSI colors and styles.
 
 Primarily this means that:
 
 - Click's {func}`echo` function will automatically strip ANSI color codes if the stream is not connected to a terminal.
 - the {func}`echo` function will transparently connect to the terminal on Windows and translate ANSI codes to terminal
   API calls. This means that colors will work on Windows the same way they do on other operating systems.
 
-On Windows, Click uses colorama without calling `colorama.init()`. You can still call that in your code, but it's not
-required for Click.
+:::{admonition} Older Windows Support
+:class: note
+
+Recent Windows 11 supports ANSI styling by default, in both Terminal and cmd.exe.
+If you need to support color output on older versions of Windows, install
+[colorama](https://pypi.org/project/colorama/) and call `colorama.init()`.
+:::
 
 For styling a string, the {func}`style` function can be used:
 

examples/colors/README

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ $ colors_
   colors is a simple example that shows how you can
   colorize text.
 
-  Uses colorama on Windows.
-
 Usage:
 
   $ pip install --editable .

pyproject.toml

@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Typing :: Typed",
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-dependencies = [
-    "colorama; platform_system == 'Windows'",
-]
 
 [project.urls]
 Donate = "https://palletsprojects.com/donate"
@@ -114,12 +111,6 @@ show_error_codes = true
 pretty = true
 strict = true
 
-[[tool.mypy.overrides]]
-module = [
-    "colorama.*",
-]
-ignore_missing_imports = true
-
 [tool.pyright]
 pythonVersion = "3.10"
 include = ["src", "tests/typing"]

src/click/_compat.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 CYGWIN = sys.platform.startswith("cygwin")
 WIN = sys.platform.startswith("win")
 MAC = sys.platform == "darwin"
-auto_wrap_for_ansi: t.Callable[[t.TextIO], t.TextIO] | None = None
 _ansi_re = re.compile(r"\033\[[;?0-9]*[a-zA-Z]")
 
 
@@ -511,9 +510,7 @@ def should_strip_ansi(
     return not color
 
 
-# On Windows, wrap the output streams with colorama to support ANSI
-# color codes.
-# NOTE: double check is needed so mypy does not analyze this on Linux
+# double check is needed so mypy does not analyze this on Linux
 if sys.platform.startswith("win") and WIN:
     from ._winconsole import _get_windows_console_stream
 
@@ -522,43 +519,6 @@ def _get_argv_encoding() -> str:
 
         return locale.getpreferredencoding()
 
-    _ansi_stream_wrappers: cabc.MutableMapping[t.TextIO, t.TextIO] = WeakKeyDictionary()
-
-    def auto_wrap_for_ansi(stream: t.TextIO, color: bool | None = None) -> t.TextIO:
-        """Support ANSI color and style codes on Windows by wrapping a
-        stream with colorama.
-        """
-        try:
-            cached = _ansi_stream_wrappers.get(stream)
-        except Exception:
-            cached = None
-
-        if cached is not None:
-            return cached
-
-        import colorama
-
-        strip = should_strip_ansi(stream, color)
-        ansi_wrapper = colorama.AnsiToWin32(stream, strip=strip)
-        rv = t.cast(t.TextIO, ansi_wrapper.stream)
-        _write = rv.write
-
-        def _safe_write(s: str) -> int:
-            try:
-                return _write(s)
-            except BaseException:
-                ansi_wrapper.reset_all()
-                raise
-
-        rv.write = _safe_write  # type: ignore[method-assign]
-
-        try:
-            _ansi_stream_wrappers[stream] = rv
-        except Exception:
-            pass
-
-        return rv
-
 else:
 
     def _get_argv_encoding() -> str:

src/click/termui.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 from ._compat import isatty
 from ._compat import strip_ansi
-from ._compat import WIN
 from .exceptions import Abort
 from .exceptions import UsageError
 from .globals import resolve_color_default
@@ -84,17 +83,7 @@ def hidden_prompt_func(prompt: str) -> str:
 def _readline_prompt(func: t.Callable[[str], str], text: str, err: bool) -> str:
     """Call a prompt function, passing the full prompt on non-Windows so
     readline can handle line editing and cursor positioning correctly.
-
-    On Windows the prompt is written separately via :func:`echo` for
-    colorama support, with only the last character passed to *func*.
     """
-    if WIN:
-        # Write the prompt separately so that we get nice coloring
-        # through colorama on Windows.
-        echo(text[:-1], nl=False, err=err)
-        # Echo the last character to stdout to work around an issue
-        # where readline causes backspace to clear the whole line.
-        return func(text[-1:])
     if err:
         with redirect_stdout(sys.stderr):
             return func(text)

src/click/utils.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 from ._compat import _default_text_stderr
 from ._compat import _default_text_stdout
 from ._compat import _find_binary_writer
-from ._compat import auto_wrap_for_ansi
 from ._compat import binary_streams
 from ._compat import open_stream
 from ._compat import should_strip_ansi
@@ -262,6 +261,9 @@ def echo(
         default Click will remove color if the output does not look like
         an interactive terminal.
 
+    .. versionchanged:: 8.5
+        Colorama is no longer used for color on Windows.
+
     .. versionchanged:: 6.0
         Support Unicode output on the Windows console. Click does not
         modify ``sys.stdout``, so ``sys.stdout.write()`` and ``print()``
@@ -319,16 +321,8 @@ def echo(
 
     # ANSI style code support. For no message or bytes, nothing happens.
     # When outputting to a file instead of a terminal, strip codes.
-    else:
-        color = resolve_color_default(color)
-
-        if should_strip_ansi(file, color):
-            out = strip_ansi(out)
-        elif WIN:
-            if auto_wrap_for_ansi is not None:
-                file = auto_wrap_for_ansi(file, color)  # type: ignore
-            elif not color:
-                out = strip_ansi(out)
+    elif should_strip_ansi(file, resolve_color_default(color)):
+        out = strip_ansi(out)
 
     file.write(out)  # type: ignore
     file.flush()

tests/test_utils.py

@@ -472,22 +472,18 @@ def test_echo_color_flag(monkeypatch, capfd):
     out, err = capfd.readouterr()
     assert out == f"{styled_text}\n"
 
-    isatty = True
     click.echo(styled_text)
     out, err = capfd.readouterr()
     assert out == f"{styled_text}\n"
 
     isatty = False
-    # Faking isatty() is not enough on Windows;
-    # the implementation caches the colorama wrapped stream
-    # so we have to use a new stream for each test
-    stream = StringIO()
-    click.echo(styled_text, file=stream)
-    assert stream.getvalue() == f"{text}\n"
-
-    stream = StringIO()
-    click.echo(styled_text, file=stream, color=True)
-    assert stream.getvalue() == f"{styled_text}\n"
+    click.echo(styled_text)
+    out, err = capfd.readouterr()
+    assert out == f"{text}\n"
+
+    click.echo(styled_text, color=True)
+    out, err = capfd.readouterr()
+    assert out == f"{styled_text}\n"
 
 
 def test_prompt_cast_default(capfd, monkeypatch):