Installing Rich

Installing Rich

Rich is a python package, so we can install it with the pip command, you can directly use the pip install command to install rich but if you don’t want to mess up your global python environment, you can use a virtualenv to try out and play with a package in isolation. So, we will first set up a virtual environment with the virtualenv package...

Setting up a virtual environment

To set up a virtual environment follow the procedure explained in the article Create virtual environment using venv....

Using pip to install rich

We can now safely install any packages in our activated virtual environment, to install rich we need to run the following command:...

Creating a Python Script to demonstrate Rich

Now, since we have the rich package installed in the virtual environment, we can use the rich package in a python script and leverage its formatting and logging styles in the terminal I/O. We’ll first create a hello word script in python and demonstrate a few other functions and operators provided by the rich package....

Creating an informative tasks display

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Tables in Terminal with Rich

Python3 from time import sleep from rich.console import Console   console = Console() tasks = [f"Task {n}" for n in range(1, 8)]   with console.status("[bold dark_orange]Finishing tasks...") as status:     while tasks:         task = tasks.pop(0)         sleep(1)         console.log(f"{task} complete")...

Rendering Markdown file

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Trees in Rich

We can even display tables in a rich format with the rich package. The rich package has a way to represent tabular data in the terminal with the Tables class.  We can construct a few sample tables to understand the fundamentals of rendering the tabular data to the console....