rich
Dev tools
terminal output library
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
20 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.59.
Design: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, polished output and detailed README
From 2 comments
I'm blown away. That's amazingly gorgeous!
kstrauser on HNIt's beautiful, but what I love most is the detailed README. Thank you for the attention to detail.
20wenty on HN
Useful for progress bars, tables, logging and Jupyter support
From 3 comments
Wow. That progress bar - I’m sold. Looking forward to trying it out
jpxw on HNThis 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.…
hagy on HNAwesome work, the Jupyter notebook support is really appreciated!
kelsolaar on HN
Clean API design
From 1 comment
This is SO cool! Amazing collection of features, really clean API design. I had no idea how much I wanted this.
simonw on HN
Objections
Does not work in PyCharm console
From 1 comment
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.
alexpetralia on HN
No list of supported terminals
From 1 comment
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…
dec0dedab0de on HN
Requests
Traceback coloring enabled by default
From 1 comment
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…
1337shadow on HN
Curses or TUI integration
From 1 comment
Looks great! Any chances of curses or other TUI integration, or is that out of scope for the project?
ipsum2 on HN
HTML or email output
From 1 comment
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…
maest on HN
Questions
Does it work in PyCharm console
From 1 comment
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.
alexpetralia on HN
Alternatives named
urwid
From 2 comments
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…
rozab on HNPerfect timing. I was looking at Urwid (http://urwid.org/) last night for a new project. Urwid is a console user interface library for python.
_e on HN
colorama
From 1 comment
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…
rozab on HN
blessed
From 1 comment
please also consider blessed, an API-compatible fork of blessings that adds Windows 10 support, 24-bit color, keyboard input, and more.…
jquast on HN
prompt-toolkit
From 1 comment
Don’t forget prompt-toolkit. Notably it is a dependency of the truly excellent IPython shell.
jnwatson on HN
termcolor
From 1 comment
This is awesome. I’ve used termcolor and urwid in the past, will give this a shot.
dave_sullivan on HN