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New COLORIZED REPL nearly unusable on MS-Windows 10 by default #125609

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The new colorized REPL is nearly unusable on MS-Windows 10 with the default colors it is using. I usually work on Linux, but haven't tested there as yet.

Here are three files:

  • one shows the colorized output of a traceback in CMD.EXE. It is much more readable in the photo than on the screen.
    cmd-colorized
  • The second one shows the impact of PYTHON_COLORS=0, which makes it usable again.
    cmd-no-color
  • one shows the even worse impact in PowerShell, where it is completely unreadable, although you can prove that the text is there by copying from the screen and pasting into an editor.
    powershell-colorized

There are no docs on how to even go about adjusting the colors that are being selected by the new REPL for any platform.

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

Windows

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