Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
The Rich API makes it easy to add color and style to terminal output. Rich can also render pretty tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighted source code, tracebacks, and more — out of the box.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Text class you can use to mark up strings with color and style attributes. You can use a Text instance anywhere a string is accepted, which gives you a lot of control over presentation.
- Automatically highlight patterns in text, such as numbers, strings, collections, booleans, None, and a few more exotic patterns such as file paths, URLs and UUIDs.
- Format (i.e. pretty print) containers such as lists, dicts, and sets.
- Supplies a logging handler which will format and colorize text written by Python’s logging module.
- Render Python tracebacks with syntax highlighting and formatting. Rich tracebacks are easier to read and show more code than standard Python tracebacks.
- Number of Prompt classes which ask a user for input and loop until a valid response is received (they all use the Console API internally).
- Render text or other Rich renderables in neat columns with the Columns class
- Group class allows you to group several renderables together so they may be rendered in a context where only a single renderable may be supplied. For instance, you might want to display several renderables within a Panel.
- Render Markdown to the console. To render markdown, construct a Markdown object then print it to the console.
- Add whitespace around text or other renderable.
- Display continuously updated information regarding the progress of long running tasks / file copies etc. The information displayed is configurable, the default will display a description of the ‘task’, a progress bar, percentage complete, and estimated time remaining.
- Syntax highlight various programming languages with line numbers.
- Variety of ways to render tabular data to the terminal.
- Generate a tree view in the terminal. A tree view is a great way of presenting the contents of a filesystem or any other hierarchical data.
Website: github.com/Textualize/rich
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Developer: Will McGugan
License: MIT License
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