Show HN: Python lib for rich text, markdown, tables, etc. in the terminal

Other great tools in the python terminal sphere are colorama, blessings and urwid.

Colorama is just for cross platform colouring, blessings is a very elegant wrapper over curses which is still useful for not-fullscreen things, and urwid is a full-blown widget library for TUI stuff.

Lovely work, and I feel sad that this kind of labor inside a teletype emulator is something we consider anything but niche nostalgia in 2020.

I'm blown away. That's amazingly gorgeous!

Reminds me of my own Marked-Man utility [1], but this is way prettier. Definitely will have to check this out. Maybe I'll redo marked-man with this lib.

[1]: https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man

This looks great. I love stuff like this, especially that it is cross platform. One thing that would be nice to see is a list of which terminals are supported, or at least what the various terminals support.

Perfect timing.

I was looking at Urwid (http://urwid.org/) last night for a new project. Urwid is a console user interface library for python.

It's beautiful, but what I love most is the detailed README. Thank you for the attention to detail.

I'll add my grateful thanks.

Rich has already become my go-to tool for various Python stuff. I use these days Code's Python file with notebook cell comments. With this I can use console and Jupyter Notebook style rendering depending on wether I'm using regular IPython or Code's Interactive Window. I'm adapting my console printing to leverage Rich's features for Django querysets and other objects I'm dealing with. Rich gives me poor man's Jupyter Notebook widgets. Now I don't need to switch to ipynb files for browser based JS widgets much at all.

Related to this - is there a way to have a similar rich-styling library designed for email outputs?

I have some daily reports generated by a python script via cron. The script currently outputs plaintext and the email just adds <pre> tags around the output, for formatting purposes. Some spicier formatting would be nice.

Excellent ! Really love the traceback coloration, would love to have that enabled by default, should probably check pythonrc if it can hook that up. Also, RST support would be nice to render docstrings. Also, nice sphinx docs dir, perhaps enable rtfd.io or something that will publish them somewhere as HTML ?

This is great! Will certainly be using it in all my command line tools and scripts. Particularly the log handler. Also, like how it has special support for Jupyter notebooks.

Thanks for developing this.

Excellent work, kudos! By the way, as a freelance software developer, do you work with Flask or other frameworks (instead of Django), if needed?

Very cool, looks nice enough to try throwing it in my projects right now (since I've never settled on a proper output formatter).

Is anyone able to get this working in PyCharm?

I can get it working on both a shell Python and iPython console, but not in the PyCharm console.

Really cool esp the table stuff and pretty printing list and dicts in color.

This might be useful to integrate into pandas, BeautifulSoup etc

This really rocks, man, can't wait to use it. I used to use 'Clint', but this is even more robust.

This is SO cool! Amazing collection of features, really clean API design. I had no idea how much I wanted this.

Came to echo many others here - great work and fantastic attention to detail. Thanks for your effort.

Looks great! Any chances of curses or other TUI integration, or is that out of scope for the project?

It would be awesome for manpages and vim helpfiles to have formatting and color like this.

This is awesome. I’ve used termcolor and urwid in the past, will give this a shot.

This is really cool! How did you even go about building something like this.

Wow. That progress bar - I’m sold. Looking forward to trying it out

Awesome work, the Jupyter notebook support is really appreciated!

Absolutely love this. Will implement it in my CLI games.

Right on time

I have a short block of code I put in a lot of projects with just color output and formatting. But now I really want to start using this.

I like that it's cross platform and you can do very simple things or very complex formatting. This is super neat.