Python - rich - render to a string instead of the console

in «tip» by Michael Beard
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How to "print" to a string in rich

On an issue that I submitted to the repo, asking if there was a similar interface in rich as what textwrap gives (specifically, the subsequent_indent value), I was told about tables and table.grids, which worked, but I still would like to know how to get a string that has been "colorized" (as I really like how rich does it).

Anyway, I did get a pattern on how to do that:

console = Console(file=io.StringIO(), force_terminal=True)
console.print(text)
table_str = console.file.getvalue()

As @willmcgugan says:

Unfortunately you won't be able to use the result with textwrap, which won't handle the invisible control codes correctly.

As he say, it's unfortunate, but maybe in the cases I might need it, it might work out ok. But, it's good to know how to get a string from the framework.