From 43544a431ca958b411d6b84c7093f03e48461349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Segev Finer <segev208@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:17:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Early import colorama so that it get's the correct terminal

---
 _pytest/capture.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/_pytest/capture.py b/_pytest/capture.py
index 481bc2549..be93eef2b 100644
--- a/_pytest/capture.py
+++ b/_pytest/capture.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def pytest_load_initial_conftests(early_config, parser, args):
     ns = early_config.known_args_namespace
     if ns.capture == "fd":
         _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround()
+    _colorama_workaround()
     _readline_workaround()
     pluginmanager = early_config.pluginmanager
     capman = CaptureManager(ns.capture)
@@ -473,6 +474,24 @@ class DontReadFromInput:
             raise AttributeError('redirected stdin has no attribute buffer')
 
 
+def _colorama_workaround():
+    """
+    Ensure colorama is imported so that it attaches to the correct stdio
+    handles on Windows.
+    
+    colorama uses the terminal on import time. So if something does the
+    first import of colorama while I/O capture is active, colorama will
+    fail in various ways.
+    """
+
+    if not sys.platform.startswith('win32'):
+        return
+    try:
+        import colorama  # noqa
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+
+
 def _readline_workaround():
     """
     Ensure readline is imported so that it attaches to the correct stdio