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17222	Let `manage.py`  learn  --colour/--color option to control if colouring output is wanted by user	rabio	nobody	"It will be nice if `manage.py` could understand --colour/--color options like grep do for example (i.e always / never / guess).

=== Rationale ===

1. It may be still reasonable to force `manage.py` to output colour escape sequences even when output is not send to a `tty` (now escape sequences for colour are supresed in this case). For example, this may happen when its output is redirected to `less -R` or `tail`.

2. Even when switching colours off may be achieved now by setting DJANGO_COLORS=nocolor environment variable (or to any palette name not known to `django.utils.termcolors`), it is not obvious way to achieve this and it is not always as easy to set / change environment variable as it is to run command with additional option.

3. See also #17221 for additional rationale as this enhancement may provide temporary workaround for it.
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