#336: Terminal magic with Rich and Textual

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Have you heard of the package Rich? This library allows you to create very, well, rich terminal-based UIs in Python. When you think of what you can typically build with basic print statements, that may seem quite limited. But with Rich, imagine justified tables, progress bars, rendering of markdown, and way more. This is one of the fastest growing projects in the Python space these days. And the creator, Will McGugan is here to give is the whole history and even a peak at the future of Rich and a follow on library called Textual.

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0:00.0	Have you heard of the package Rich? This library allows you to create, well, rich terminal-based
0:05.2	UIs in Python. When you think of what you can typically build with basic print statements,
0:10.0	they may seem quite limited. But with Rich, imagine justified tables, progress bars, rendering
0:16.4	of markdown, and way more. This is one of the fastest growing projects in the Python space these days,
0:21.4	and the creator, Will McGougan, is here to give us the whole history and even a peek at the future of
0:26.0	Rich and a follow-on library called Textual. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 336, recorded October 13th,
0:33.8	2021. 21. Welcome to talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python. This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
0:52.4	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy and keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm. And follow the show on Twitter via at TalkPython. We've started streaming most of our episodes live on YouTube.
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1:19.3	Training. And the transcript are brought to you by Assembly AI. Will, welcome to Talk Python to
1:25.7	Me. Thank you. It's fantastic to finally have you on the show.
1:28.9	I feel like we've talked a lot about the work that you've been doing many times, not so
1:32.7	much on Talk Python because we're more focused on a single topic.
1:36.3	But even so, I believe at the end I always ask for some project that needs attention,
1:41.8	needs some sort of shout out.
1:43.0	And I believe Rich has come up more than once. I think textual has come up at least once there. So the prior
1:49.6	guests of the show have been fans. And I know the audience is a big fan. So yeah, congrats on
1:55.4	all the progress there. Great. Thanks. Yeah. We appreciate the coverage. You probably increased my
2:00.6	star count by a few
2:01.7	thousands. Well, I do want to talk about that because this project is super popular and as we get
2:06.7	into it, I think it's going to be fun to explore. Some of the things that you felt were key to that.
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