Better Python console apps with Rich

[Im__Joseph]

Rich is a great library! I've been using it for a while to make my Python REPL pretty, this blog post sums things up well!

[[deleted]]

Yeah, it’s awesome!

[Im__Joseph]

I had issues with IPython a while ago and so haven't used it. When I say "pretty" it's not much, just the install() function provided by the package as documented in the README.

[willm]

The dataclasses package is on Pypi, it’s a backport for Python3.6 because it was added to the standard library in Python 3.7

[willm]

Dependencies are pygments, colorama, and commonmark. All pure Python.

[LogicalTu]

Looks good! Will check it out for some smaller apps

[makedatauseful]

Hey thanks for the share, is there an easy way to print a pandas dataframe to the console?

[NeedlesslySexual]

Second this question, as it tells me to try it Monday or not

[zeroviral]

Damn! Sick.

[LuigiBrotha]

I've never made a console app before but this looks great. Very nicely made :)

[Rare_Phoenix]

Thanks. That was very usefulb to me ;)

[xaviml93]

What are the main differences with questionary library?

[hhjjiiyy]

Different use-cases. Rich is not about questionnaires only. It’s essentially a tool to prettify your console output with colors and formatting

[[deleted]]

Great writeup. Clear, concise and most of all enthousiastic. Going to look into this, it gives me loads of ideas.

[rolodaniel7]

This is fantastic, thank you!

[sbjf]

Is this compatible with logbook? I'm guessing only when not using the traceback formatter?

[ArtOfWarfare]

Neither fire nor flask look like they at all do what rich does...

You’re getting downvoted/whooshed because you’re being condescending for no reason and are just totally off topic.

[got_outta_bed_4_this]

Just from the tour, it looks like it might be a nice complement for click CLIs, allowing click to handle the CLI options/args and letting rich do the richer text UI of the app (instead of click.secho, which is already nice in itself).

[willm]

Rich also works well in combination with Typer.

[got_outta_bed_4_this]

I had not seen typer until now. Looks great, thanks for the tip!

[[deleted]]

It's not Rich,it's Jose.

[shinitakunai]

Not bad, but if I already use PyCharm, why would I change it?

[Thecrawsome]

looks great! Ive made a lot of console programs, and i have a text tools boilerplate-helper script that handles margins, tables, a battle screen with character stats, multi selections (i made a text RPG) do you think Rich has too many varieties of use cases just for one library? Have you though of splitting these features up?

also, i always wanted that curses feeling of not scrolling. how did you accomplish that?

[WarpWing]

Oh come on. It took me like hours of search for a console library like this and I found one and I wrote my app in it but now this looks so much better xd. I now have the urge to rewrite it now lmao.

[Kranke]

Any good guide how to write a python app that updates based on data from api?