diff --git a/addons/web/__openerp__.py b/addons/web/__openerp__.py
index 74633fa4969..37a5d435a75 100644
--- a/addons/web/__openerp__.py
+++ b/addons/web/__openerp__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
         "static/lib/underscore/underscore.js",
         "static/lib/underscore/underscore.string.js",
         "static/lib/labjs/LAB.src.js",
+        "static/lib/py.parse/lib/py.js",
         "static/src/js/boot.js",
         "static/src/js/core.js",
         "static/src/js/dates.js",
diff --git a/addons/web/static/lib/py.parse/lib/py.js b/addons/web/static/lib/py.parse/lib/py.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5cf304bb58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/web/static/lib/py.parse/lib/py.js
@@ -0,0 +1,490 @@
+var py = {};
+(function (exports) {
+    var NUMBER = /^\d$/,
+        NAME_FIRST = /^[a-zA-Z_]$/,
+        NAME = /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]$/;
+
+    var create = function (o, props) {
+        function F() {};
+        F.prototype = o;
+        var inst = new F;
+        for(var name in props) {
+            if(!props.hasOwnProperty(name)) { continue; }
+            inst[name] = props[name];
+        }
+        return inst;
+    }
+
+    var symbols = {};
+    var comparators = {};
+    var Base = {
+        nud: function () { throw new Error(this.id + " undefined as prefix"); },
+        led: function (led) { throw new Error(this.id + " undefined as infix"); },
+        toString: function () {
+            if (this.id === '(constant)' || this.id === '(number)' || this.id === '(name)' || this.id === '(string)') {
+                return [this.id.slice(0, this.id.length-1), ' ', this.value, ')'].join('');
+            } else if (this.id === '(end)') {
+                return '(end)';
+            } else if (this.id === '(comparator)' ) {
+                var out = ['(comparator', this.expressions[0]];
+                for (var i=0;i<this.operators.length; ++i) {
+                    out.push(this.operators[i], this.expressions[i+1]);
+                }
+                return out.join(' ') + ')';
+            }
+            var out = [this.id, this.first, this.second, this.third]
+                .filter(function (r){return r}).join(' ');
+            return '(' + out + ')';
+        }
+    }
+    function symbol(id, bp) {
+        bp = bp || 0;
+        var s = symbols[id];
+        if (s) {
+            if (bp > s.lbp) {
+                s.lbp = bp;
+            }
+            return s;
+        }
+        return symbols[id] = create(Base, {
+            id: id,
+            lbp: bp
+        });
+    }
+    function constant(id) {
+        symbol(id).nud = function () {
+            this.id = "(constant)";
+            this.value = id;
+            return this;
+        };
+    };
+    function prefix(id, bp, nud) {
+        symbol(id).nud = nud || function () {
+            this.first = expression(bp);
+            return this
+        }
+    }
+    function infix(id, bp, led) {
+        symbol(id, bp).led = led || function (left) {
+            this.first = left;
+            this.second = expression(bp);
+            return this;
+        }
+    }
+    function infixr(id, bp) {
+        symbol(id, bp).led = function (left) {
+            this.first = left;
+            this.second = expression(bp - 1);
+            return this;
+        }
+    }
+    function comparator(id) {
+        comparators[id] = true;
+        var bp = 60;
+        infix(id, bp, function (left) {
+            this.id = '(comparator)';
+            this.operators = [id];
+            this.expressions = [left, expression(bp)];
+            while (token.id in comparators) {
+                this.operators.push(token.id);
+                advance();
+                this.expressions.push(
+                    expression(bp));
+            }
+            return this;
+        });
+    }
+
+    constant('None'); constant('False'); constant('True');
+
+    symbol('(number)').nud = function () { return this; };
+    symbol('(name)').nud = function () { return this; };
+    symbol('(string)').nud = function () { return this; };
+    symbol('(end)');
+
+    symbol(':'); symbol(')'); symbol(']'); symbol('}'); symbol(',');
+    symbol('else');
+
+    symbol('lambda', 20).nud = function () {
+        this.first = [];
+        if (token.id !== ':') {
+            for(;;) {
+                if (token.id !== '(name)') {
+                    throw new Error('Excepted an argument name');
+                }
+                this.first.push(token);
+                advance();
+                if (token.id !== ',') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                advance(',');
+            }
+        }
+        advance(':');
+        this.second = expression();
+        return this;
+    };
+    infix('if', 20, function (left) {
+        this.first = left;
+        this.second = expression();
+        advance('else');
+        this.third = expression();
+        return this;
+    });
+
+    infixr('or', 30); infixr('and', 40); prefix('not', 50);
+
+    comparator('in'); comparator('not in');
+    comparator('is'); comparator('is not');
+    comparator('<'); comparator('<=');
+    comparator('>'); comparator('>=');
+    comparator('<>'); comparator('!='); comparator('==');
+
+    infix('|', 70); infix('^', 80), infix('&', 90);
+
+    infix('<<', 100); infix('>>', 100);
+
+    infix('+', 110); infix('-', 110);
+
+    infix('*', 120); infix('/', 120);
+    infix('//', 120), infix('%', 120);
+
+    prefix('-', 130); prefix('+', 130); prefix('~', 130)
+
+    infixr('**', 140);
+
+    infix('.', 150, function (left) {
+        if (token.id !== '(name)') {
+            throw new Error('Expected attribute name, got ', token.id);
+        }
+        this.first = left;
+        this.second = token;
+        advance();
+        return this;
+    });
+    symbol('(', 150).nud = function () {
+        this.first = [];
+        var comma = false;
+        if (token.id !== ')') {
+            while (true) {
+                if (token.id === ')') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                this.first.push(expression())
+                if (token.id !== ',') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                comma = true;
+                advance(',');
+            }
+        }
+        advance(')');
+        if (!this.first.length || comma) {
+            return this;
+        } else {
+            return this.first[0];
+        }
+    };
+    symbol('(').led = function (left) {
+        this.first = left;
+        this.second = [];
+        if (token.id !== ")") {
+            for(;;) {
+                this.second.push(expression());
+                if (token.id !== ',') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                advance(',');
+            }
+        }
+        advance(")");
+        return this;
+
+    };
+    infix('[', 150, function (left) {
+        this.first = left
+        this.second = expression()
+        advance("]")
+        return this;
+    })
+    symbol('[').nud = function () {
+        this.first = [];
+        if (token.id !== ']') {
+            for (;;) {
+                if (token.id === ']') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                this.first.push(expression());
+                if (token.id !== ',') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                advance(',');
+            }
+        }
+        advance(']');
+        return this;
+    };
+
+    symbol('{').nud = function () {
+        this.first = [];
+        if (token.id !== '}') {
+            for(;;) {
+                if (token.id === '}') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                var key = expression();
+                advance(':');
+                var value = expression();
+                this.first.push([key, value]);
+                if (token.id !== ',') {
+                    break;
+                }
+                advance(',');
+            }
+        }
+        advance('}');
+        return this;
+    };
+
+    var longops = {
+        '*': ['*'],
+        '<': ['<', '=', '>'],
+        '>': ['=', '>'],
+        '!': ['='],
+        '=': ['='],
+        '/': ['/']
+    }
+    function Tokenizer(str) {
+        this.states = ['initial'];
+        this.tokens = [];
+    }
+    Tokenizer.prototype = {
+        builder: function (empty) {
+            var key = this.states[0] + '_builder';
+            if (empty) {
+                var value = this[key];
+                delete this[key];
+                return value;
+            } else {
+                return this[key] = this[key] || [];
+            }
+        },
+        simple: function (type) {
+            this.tokens.push({type: type});
+        },
+        push: function (new_state) {
+            this.states.push(new_state);
+        },
+        pop: function () {
+            this.states.pop();
+        },
+
+        feed: function (str, index) {
+            var s = this.states;
+            return this[s[s.length - 1]](str, index);
+        },
+
+        initial: function (str, index) {
+            var character = str[index];
+
+            if (character in longops) {
+                var follow = longops[character];
+                for(var i=0, len=follow.length; i<len; ++i) {
+                    if (str[index+1] === follow[i]) {
+                        character += follow[i];
+                        index++;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (character === ' ') {
+                return index+1;
+            } else if (character === '\0') {
+                this.tokens.push(symbols['(end)']);
+                return index + 1
+            } else if (character === '"' || character === "'") {
+                this.push('string');
+                return index + 1;
+            } else if (NUMBER.test(character)) {
+                this.push('number');
+                return index;
+            } else if (NAME_FIRST.test(character)) {
+                this.push('name');
+                return index;
+            } else if (character in symbols) {
+                this.tokens.push(create(symbols[character]));
+                return index + 1;
+            }
+            throw new Error("Tokenizing failure of <<" + str + ">> at index " + index
+                            + ", character [[" + character + "]]"
+                            + "; parsed so far: " + this.tokens);
+        },
+        string: function (str, index) {
+            var character = str[index];
+            if (character === '"' || character === "'") {
+                this.tokens.push(create(symbols['(string)'], {
+                    value: this.builder(true).join('')
+                }));
+                this.pop();
+                return index + 1;
+            }
+            this.builder().push(character);
+            return index + 1;
+        },
+        number: function (str, index) {
+            var character = str[index];
+            if (!NUMBER.test(character)) {
+                this.tokens.push(create(symbols['(number)'], {
+                    value: parseFloat(this.builder(true).join(''))
+                }));
+                this.pop();
+                return index;
+            }
+            this.builder().push(character);
+            return index + 1;
+        },
+        name: function (str, index) {
+            var character = str[index];
+            if (!NAME.test(character)) {
+                var name = this.builder(true).join('');
+                var symbol = symbols[name];
+                if (symbol) {
+                    if (name === 'in' && this.tokens[this.tokens.length-1].id === 'not') {
+                        symbol = symbols['not in'];
+                        this.tokens.pop();
+                    } else if (name === 'not' && this.tokens[this.tokens.length-1].id === 'is') {
+                        symbol = symbols['is not'];
+                        this.tokens.pop();
+                    }
+                    this.tokens.push(create(symbol));
+                } else {
+                    this.tokens.push(create(symbols['(name)'], {
+                        value: name
+                    }));
+                }
+                this.pop();
+                return index;
+            }
+            this.builder().push(character);
+            return index + 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    exports.tokenize = function tokenize(str) {
+        var index = 0,
+            str = str + '\0',
+            tokenizer = new Tokenizer(str);
+        do {
+            index = tokenizer.feed(str, index);
+        } while (index !== str.length)
+        return tokenizer.tokens;
+    }
+
+    var token, next;
+    function expression(rbp) {
+        rbp = rbp || 0;
+        var t = token;
+        token = next();
+        var left = t.nud();
+        while (rbp < token.lbp) {
+            t = token;
+            token = next();
+            left = t.led(left);
+        }
+        return left;
+    }
+    function advance(id) {
+        if (id && token.id !== id) {
+            throw new Error(
+                'Expected "' + id + '", got "' + token.id + '"');
+        }
+        token = next();
+    }
+
+    exports.object = create({}, {});
+    exports.tuple = create(exports.object, {
+        __contains__: function (value) {
+            for(var i=0, len=this.values.length; i<len; ++i) {
+                if (this.values[i] === value) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+    });
+
+    exports.parse = function (toks) {
+        var index = 0;
+        token = toks[0];
+        next = function () { return toks[++index]; };
+        return expression();
+    };
+    evaluate_operator = function (operator, a, b) {
+        switch (operator) {
+        case '==': case 'is': return a === b;
+        case '!=': case 'is not': return a !== b;
+        case '<': return a < b;
+        case '<=': return a <= b;
+        case '>': return a > b;
+        case '>=': return a >= b;
+        case 'in': return b.__contains__(a);
+        case 'not in': return !b.__contains__(a);
+        }
+        throw new Error('SyntaxError: unknown comparator [[' + operator + ']]');
+    }
+    exports.evaluate = function (expr, context) {
+        switch (expr.id) {
+        case '(name)':
+            var val = context[expr.value];
+            if (val === undefined) {
+                throw new Error("NameError: name '" + expr.value + "' is not defined");
+            }
+            return val;
+        case '(string)':
+        case '(number)':
+            return expr.value;
+        case '(comparator)':
+            var result, left = exports.evaluate(expr.expressions[0], context);
+            for(var i=0; i<expr.operators.length; ++i) {
+                result = evaluate_operator(
+                    expr.operators[i],
+                    left,
+                    left = exports.evaluate(expr.expressions[i+1], context));
+                if (!result) { return false; }
+            }
+            return true;
+        case '-':
+            if (this.second) {
+                throw new Error('SyntaxError: binary [-] not implemented yet');
+            }
+            return -(exports.evaluate(expr.first, context));
+        case 'and':
+            return (exports.evaluate(expr.first, context)
+                    && exports.evaluate(expr.second, context));
+        case 'or':
+            return (exports.evaluate(expr.first, context)
+                    || exports.evaluate(expr.second, context));
+        case '(':
+            if (this.second) {
+                throw new Error('SyntaxError: functions not implemented yet');
+            }
+            var tuple_exprs = expr.first,
+                tuple_values = [];
+            for (var i=0, len=tuple_exprs.length; i<len; ++i) {
+                tuple_values.push(exports.evaluate(
+                    tuple_exprs[i], context));
+            }
+            return create(exports.tuple, {values: tuple_values});
+        default:
+            throw new Error('SyntaxError: Unknown node [[' + expr.id + ']]');
+        }
+    };
+    exports.eval = function (str, context) {
+        return exports.evaluate(
+            exports.parse(
+                exports.tokenize(
+                    str)),
+            context);;
+    }
+})(typeof exports === 'undefined' ? py : exports)
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
index eeda44c4c99..cb8637ff0a4 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
         this.model = dataset.model;
         this.view_id = view_id;
         this.previous_colspan = null;
+        this.colors = null;
 
         this.columns = [];
 
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
             }
             self.compute_aggregates();
         });
+
     },
     /**
      * Retrieves the view's number of records per page (|| section)
@@ -131,6 +133,25 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
         this.$element.addClass('oe-listview');
         return this.reload_view(null, null, true);
     },
+    /**
+     * Returns the color for the provided record in the current view (from the
+     * ``@colors`` attribute)
+     *
+     * @param {Record} record record for the current row
+     * @returns {String} CSS color declaration
+     */
+    color_for: function (record) {
+        if (!this.colors) { return ''; }
+        for(var i=0, len=this.colors.length; i<len; ++i) {
+            var pair = this.colors[i],
+                color = pair[0],
+                expression = pair[1];
+            if (py.evaluate(expression, record.attributes)) {
+                return 'color: ' + color + ';';
+            }
+        }
+        return '';
+    },
     /**
      * Called after loading the list view's description, sets up such things
      * as the view table's columns, renders the table itself and hooks up the
@@ -159,6 +180,16 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
         this.fields_view = data;
         this.name = "" + this.fields_view.arch.attrs.string;
 
+        if (this.fields_view.arch.attrs.colors) {
+            this.colors = _(this.fields_view.arch.attrs.colors.split(';')).map(
+                function (color_pair) {
+                    var pair = color_pair.split(':'),
+                        color = pair[0],
+                        expr = pair[1];
+                    return [color, py.parse(py.tokenize(expr))];
+                });
+        }
+
         this.setup_columns(this.fields_view.fields, grouped);
 
         this.$element.html(QWeb.render("ListView", this));
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
index a451912dcb8..b10084480c4 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
@@ -614,7 +614,8 @@
     </t>
 </t>
 <tr t-name="ListView.row" t-att-class="row_parity"
-        t-att-data-id="record.get('id')">
+        t-att-data-id="record.get('id')"
+        t-att-style="view.color_for(record)">
     <t t-foreach="columns" t-as="column">
         <td t-if="column.meta">