[Fab-user] String formatting with color functions

[Ahsan Rabbani]

I've noticed that when printing strings that are wrapped in color functions it screws up the string formatting. So for example if you have the following code:

def test():

    fmt = "%-20s |"

    print(fmt % "foo bar baz")

    print(fmt % red("foo bar baz"))

The output looks like:

[25164:1858 - 0:488] 06:39:32 address@hidden:o +1] - ~ 

$ fab test

[xargsgrep] Executing task 'test'

foo bar baz          |

foo bar baz |

Does anyone know of a way around this?

Thanks