Here's a simple drop-in colorizer for Werkzeug (and thus also Flask) logs. It won't make much sense in production, but makes development a bit more cheerful.
Adding gouge.colourcli to the mix, makes it even more colourful:
To use it, simply put it in a utility module somewhere, import it and call colorize_wekzeug.
You will need blessings. If that's not available, the function will not do any colorizing.
The code is hosted as a gist on GitHub:
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