saving the response to file on MacOS add random characters

[tonythebest]

pepper/pepper/script.py

Line 113 in ee498f8

print(result, file=ofile)

This line saves the response to a local file. My code calls this method but it adds some bad chars on MacOS (Macbook). The Windows machine has no issue. The additional bad chars are like: “0;36m”

[tonythebest]

[ESC][0;36mgood.com[ESC][0;0m:
[ESC][0;1;33mgood[ESC][0;0m

[tonythebest]

These chars are probably the definition of colors?
https://bluesock.org/~willkg/dev/ansi.html

[tonythebest]

@gtmanfred Can you take a look at why

pepper/pepper/script.py

Line 113 in ee498f8

print(result, file=ofile)

adds color code like [ESC][0;36m when printing to a file on macOS

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6159900/correct-way-to-write-line-to-file
is "print" used here because we want it to be compatible with python2? Can we use f.write?

Thank you.

[gtmanfred]

I do not know why print was used here, probably just to be consistent across the board. I also do not know why it would be putting those escape codes.

Also I am no longer involved with maintaining the any projects in the salt community @mattp- might be able to help you. Otherwise you can try joining the saltstack slack or irc and ask there.