Posts in March, 2020

Mar 30, 2020
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Rich adds support for Jupyter Notebooks

I recently added experimental support for Jupyter Notebooks to Rich. Here's an example of the kind of output it can generate:

This is the Rich test card you can generate in the terminal with python -m rich.

Part 2 of the Rich test card.

Rich is a library for fancy formatting to the terminal, where-as Jupyter supports HTML natively. So why integrate one with the other? I suspect it may be useful to render something like a table in the terminal which also displays nicely in Jupyter. continue reading…

Mar 12, 2020
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Progress bars with Rich

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 lib renders progress bars with additional information such as percentage completed, time remaining, data transfer speed etc. It's highly configurable, so you can customize it to show whatever information you like. And since it's implemented as a Rich renderable, you can easily add color and formatting. Here's what it looks like:

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