Django runserver color output

Question

I am looking for an answer concerning the color used in the output during a session of python2 manage.py runserver

I'm sure that understanding why some output is yellow, blue, or pink will help me to perform better debugging.

Answer 1

This is the default palette:

    'ERROR':        { 'fg': 'red', 'opts': ('bold',) },
    'NOTICE':       { 'fg': 'red' },
    'SQL_FIELD':    { 'fg': 'green', 'opts': ('bold',) },
    'SQL_COLTYPE':  { 'fg': 'green' },
    'SQL_KEYWORD':  { 'fg': 'yellow' },
    'SQL_TABLE':    { 'opts': ('bold',) },
    'HTTP_INFO':         { 'opts': ('bold',) },
    'HTTP_SUCCESS':      { },
    'HTTP_REDIRECT':     { 'fg': 'green' },
    'HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED': { 'fg': 'cyan' },
    'HTTP_BAD_REQUEST':  { 'fg': 'red', 'opts': ('bold',) },
    'HTTP_NOT_FOUND':    { 'fg': 'yellow' },
    'HTTP_SERVER_ERROR': { 'fg': 'magenta', 'opts': ('bold',) },

Answer 2

Haven't done it by myself, but here are some links which will help:

• django docs on django-admin commands coloring
• Better color scheme for django dev server
• Change colors of output log text from Django development server

Basically, colors are set via DJANGO_COLORS environment variable:

export DJANGO_COLORS="light"

Answer 3

To add a bit more to Pavel's answer, here is the location of the file that contains the default color settings on a Mac (OSX 10.11 El Capitan). Note: this is for Django 1.9.

The color palette is located in a file called: termcolors.py, which is located in:

/django/utils/

I installed Django in a virtual environment ("venv1"), so for me, the termcolors.py file is located here:

~/.virtualenvs/venv1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/termcolors.py