How to Generate Nice Text Formatting in System Terminal With python

Rich is a Python library for writing rich text (with color and style) to the terminal, and for displaying advanced content such as tables, markdown, and syntax highlighted code.

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Use Rich to make your command line applications visually appealing and present data in a more readable way. Rich can also be a useful debugging aid by pretty-printing and syntax highlighting data structures.

#Installation

python -m pip install rich

Then, run the following to test the Rich output on your terminal:

python -m rich

output

#Quick Start

The quickest way to get up and running with Rich is to import the alternative print function which takes the same arguments as the built-in print and maybe used as a drop-in replacement. Here’s how you would do that:

from rich import print
print("[italic red]Hello[/italic red] World!", locals())

output: