rednose is a nosetests plugin for adding colour (and readability) to nosetest console results.
easy_install rednose
or from the source:
./setup.py develop
nosetests --rednose
or:
export NOSE_REDNOSE=1 nosetests
Rednose by default uses auto-colouring, which will only use colour if you're running it on a terminal (i.e not piping it to a file). To control colouring, use one of:
nosetests --rednose --force-color nosetests --no-color
(you can also control this by setting the environment variable NOSE_REDNOSE_COLOR to 'force' or 'no')