Installing

Install with pip or your favorite PyPI package manager.

python -m pip install rich

Run the following to test Rich output on your terminal:

python -m rich

Rich Print

To effortlessly add rich output to your application, you can import the rich print method, which has the same signature as the builtin Python function. Try this:

from rich import print

print("Hello, [bold magenta]World[/bold magenta]!", ":vampire:", locals())

Rich REPL

Rich can be installed in the Python REPL, so that any data structures will be pretty printed and highlighted.

>>> from rich import pretty
>>> pretty.install()

Using the Console

For more control over rich terminal content, import and construct a Console object.

from rich.console import Console

console = Console()

The Console object has a print method which has an intentionally similar interface to the builtin print function. Here’s an example of use:

console.print("Hello", "World!")

As you might expect, this will print "Hello World!" to the terminal. Note that unlike the builtin print function, Rich will word-wrap your text to fit within the terminal width.

There are a few ways of adding color and style to your output. You can set a style for the entire output by adding a style keyword argument. Here’s an example:

console.print("Hello", "World!", style="bold red")

The output will be something like the following:

That’s fine for styling a line of text at a time. For more finely grained styling, Rich renders a special markup which is similar in syntax to bbcode. Here’s an example:

console.print("Where there is a [bold cyan]Will[/bold cyan] there [u]is[/u] a [i]way[/i].")

You can use a Console object to generate sophisticated output with minimal effort. See the Console API docs for details.

Rich Inspect

Rich has an inspect function which can produce a report on any Python object, such as class, instance, or builtin.

>>> my_list = ["foo", "bar"]
>>> from rich import inspect
>>> inspect(my_list, methods=True)

See the inspect docs for details.

Rich CLI

See also Rich CLI for a command line application powered by Rich. Syntax highlight code, render markdown, display CSVs in tables, and more, directly from the command prompt.

Textual

See also Rich’s sister project, Textual, which you can use to build sophisticated User Interfaces in the terminal.

Projects using Rich

For some examples of projects using Rich, see the Rich Gallery on Textualize.io.

Would you like to add your own project to the gallery? You can! Follow these instructions.