I get a kick out of being creative within the limitation of the terminal. I may even have come up with with an entirely new way of drawing boxes in the terminal. As bizarre as that sounds. Boxes in the terminal are not new. Rich is full of them, but they predate Rich by a long time. CLI apps will...

   Rich recently added two interesting new features. The first feature is SVG support. Anything printed to the terminal with Rich can be captured and exported to an SVG file. The output is somewhat like a screenshot but generated within Rich itself it doesn’t peek at your desktop . Will...

   Reposting this from blog.textualize.io. My name is Will McGugan. I am the creator of Rich and Textual, and the founder and CEO of Textualize. At the end of last year I took a year off to work on my Open source projects and develop an idea that I believe will allow the terminal to eat some of the...

   I’ve published a number of Open Source Python libraries, but none have seen as much buzz as Rich. Released in , the Rich repo has , stars on Github. Since then I’ve released Textual a work in progress and Rich CLI, both of which are on a similar trajectory as far as GitHub stars go. In...

   Textual adds Windows support I’ve just released v . . of Textual, with Windows support. The Windows support is somewhat experimental, but so far seems solid. You will get best results on the new Windows Terminal. On the classic command prompt you might find a reduced color palette. This works on...

   I’m trialing the idea of Weeknotes, a weekly summary of what I’ve done learned in the prior week. Inspired by Simon Willison who has an uncanny ability to respond to a tweet with a link to a weeknote of his containing just the information you needed. These will be a little rougher, a little less...

   Before my recent career change I described myself as a full stack web developer hey I built this blog . When I started building web sites professionally the work that a front end developer did was considered a lesser form of software development, requiring a less academic set of skills than the...

   I recently posted about my plans to take a year off to work full time on open source. The TL and DR of it was that I would live on savings while working on Rich and Textual, both of which where generating a bit of buzz in the Python community. Additionally, I would work on a cloud service using...

   I recently came to a decision which will have a big impact on my open source work. In particular Rich and Textual, but also pyfilesystem and lomond. For the foreseeable future, possibly up to a year, I’ll be working on them essentially full time. Rich is a very popular project now, with over K...

   If you work with JSON regularly of Python developers I suspect you might appreciate the print json function just landed in Rich v . . If you call this function with a string, Rich will decode the string, reformat it, and print it to the console with nice syntax highlighting. Here’s an...

   I’ve started work on a new project called Textual. Textual is or will be a TUI framework using Rich as a renderer. It’s still very early days, but ultimately the goal is to have something which you can uses to build a Text User Interface with little to no boiler plate. It is async powered. Each ...

   Rich has become a popular K stars on GH way of beautifying CLIs, and I’m pleased to see a number of projects using it. Since Rich is mature and battle tested now, I had considered winding down development. Until, I saw this tweet: The Tweet Do you want to see something really cool you can do...

   The latest version of Rich adds a tree view. Here’s an example of one: The labels of each branch in the tree can be text or anything else that rich can render. The guide lines can have a color per branch and one of three styles; normal, thick, and double line. The API to generate these trees...

   Rich . . adds the ability to integrate highlighted pretty printing with the Python REPL. Here’s how you would use it in a session: gt; gt; gt; from rich import pretty gt; gt; gt; pretty.install Assuming you have installed Rich of course. Now any data will be formatted and highlighted. Here’s...

   I recently tested Rich logging with a Django project and the results were good. Here’s what it looks like: Will McGugan A Django app with Rich logging Note the file and line at the right hand of the terminal which shows were the log function was called. If your terminal supports...

   Since my last post on Rich there have been a number of improvements. Here are the major highlights: Indeterminate progress bars Progress bars now have an indeterminate state which displays a pulsing animation. This a fairly common thing from graphical UIs, here’s what it looks like in the terminal...

   Since releasing Rich . . I’ve discovered that terminals support hyperlinks. And I don’t mean the helpful highlighting of URLs that most terminals do, I mean actual HTML like hyperlinks that launch a browser. This was news to me, as I’ve never seen this feature in the wild. I just had to add it to...

   I’m happy to announce the release of version . . of Rich my Python library for fancy terminal rendering. Rich is a project I started back in October when I was staying in Wuhan, a few weeks before it was locked down. Back then it was a toy project designed to pass the time while traveling....

   I recently added experimental support for Jupyter Notebooks to Rich. Here’s an example of the kind of output it can generate: Will McGugan This is the Rich test card you can generate in the terminal with python m rich. Will McGugan Part of the Rich test card. ...

   I’ve added progress bar support to Rich. If you haven’t seen my earlier posts on the subject, Rich is a terminal rendering framework for Python. It lets you render styled text and a whole bunch of other things markdown, syntax, tables, tracebacks, etc. to the terminal. This latest addition to the...

   One of my goals in writing Rich was to render really nice Python tracebacks. And now that feature has landed. I’ve never found Python tracebacks to be a great debugging aid beyond telling me what the exception was, and where it occurred. In a recent update to Rich, I’ve tried to refresh the humble...

   Will McGugan Pretty log output If you are a Python developer you may spend a large part of your day reading log output that looks like this: Will McGugan Ugly log output Front end tools like the Chrome developer console have far superior rendering for logs, but in...

   Normally, wildlife is my subject of choice, but I was recently in China and I had the opportunity to take this city scape...

   I revisited the Isle of May recently. This time at the beginning of the Puffin season. Will McGugan My favorite shot of the day. I like the way the bokeh background is still recognizable enough to be a feature. Will McGugan There is something quite comical about...

   I was reading a post by Trey Hunner on why pathlib is great, where he makes the case that pathlib is a better choice than the standard library alternatives that preceded it. I wouldn’t actually disagree with a word of it. He’s entirely correct. You should probably be using pathlib were it fits....