Motivation

After developing a useful Python package or a useful function, you might wish for your teammates or other users to use your code. However, the output of your code in the terminal is a little bit boring and is confusing to understand.

Is there a way that you can make the output clearer and prettier like below?

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That is when Rich comes in handy. Besides beautiful printing, Rich also allows you to:

  • Produce a beautiful report on any Python object
  • Debug the output of your function
  • Create a tree to display a file structure
  • Create progress bars and status
  • Create beautiful columns

In this tutorial, I will show you how to do everything mentioned above in a few lines of Python code.

Get Started

To install Rich, type

pip install rich

To have a quick summary of Rich’s functionalities, type

python -m rich

The outputs are pretty! But how can we reproduce the output like above?

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Rich: Generate Rich and Beautiful Text in the Terminal with Python
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