For what it's worth: A brief look into the sources here and a couple commands in the interpreter gives you YOUR system's answer to the issue:

Read the CHANGELOG.rst file in the project root.

0.4.6 Current release

#139 Add alternative to init(), called just_fix_windows_console. This fixes many longstanding problems with init, such as working incorrectly on modern Windows terminals, and wonkiness when init gets called multiple times. The intention is that it just makes all Windows terminals treat ANSI the same way as other terminals do. Many thanks to njsmith for fixing our messes.

The function in question is actually in the initialise.py module of colorama 0.4.6

You can import and run it by using:

>>> from colorama import initialise
>>> initialise.just_fix_windows_console()

This is a partial excerpt from just_fix_windows_console() in the initialise.py module with some extra comments:

global fixed_windows_console

if sys.platform != "win32":                  # Windows 7  and higher should return  TRUE for 'sys.platform == "win32"
    return                                             # so if this is you,  this function will continue to run

if fixed_windows_console:                 # This hasn't been determined yet on first execution and is initially set to FALSE
    return                                             # So nope, you're still going...

# So here we're asking if there is a valid wrapper to write to (ie. is there a valid object to handle encoding/decoding text
if wrapped_stdout is not None or wrapped_stderr is not None:
    # Someone already ran init() and it did stuff, so we won't second-guess them    (Colorama comment)
    return

# On newer versions of Windows, AnsiToWin32.__init__ will implicitly enable the     (Colorama comment)
# native ANSI support in the console as a side-effect. We only need to actually
# replace sys.stdout/stderr if we're in the old-style conversion mode.

new_stdout = AnsiToWin32(sys.stdout, convert=None, strip=None, autoreset=False)
if new_stdout.convert:
    sys.stdout = new_stdout
new_stderr = AnsiToWin32(sys.stderr, convert=None, strip=None, autoreset=False)
if new_stderr.convert:
    sys.stderr = new_stderr

fixed_windows_console = True

I'll let you debug how your system manages the remainder of the code.

If you're running this from from a docker in Ubuntu 04.22 LTS or when running Ubuntu in WSL 2.0), then you are a rare bird indeed, as sys.platform() should be returning 'linux'.
See Python Standard Library for additional information about sys.platform.

Cheers
scott

colorama 4.6 just_fix_windows_console() doesn't exist #370

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