Transform Your Python Terminal with Rich: Colorful Output, Tables, and Progress Bars

01. Installation

pip install rich

02. Basic Usage

Print with rich

Import the rich package and use the standard print function; the output will be rendered with colors and styles.

Console object

The Console class provides a configurable output interface. By passing a style argument you can control colors, bold, italic, and other text attributes.

Console Logging

Using Console.log produces syntax‑highlighted logs that adapt to the terminal width, and can render tables directly.

Progress Bars

Rich supports multiple simultaneous progress bars with rich visual feedback, making long-running tasks easy to monitor.

Markdown Rendering

The library can render Markdown directly, which is useful for displaying documentation or formatted text in the terminal.

Syntax Highlighting

Rich leverages the pygments library to provide syntax highlighting, using the same rendering engine as its Markdown support.

Tables

Rich can render adaptive tables with configurable borders, styles, and cell alignment, automatically adjusting to the terminal size.

With support for 16 million colors, bold, italic, underline, tables, progress bars, markdown, and syntax highlighting, Rich turns a plain monochrome terminal into a vibrant, information‑rich interface.