How to get table string?

[SadeghPouriyanZadeh]

The documentation only shows how to print tables. But we want to use rich table as string to return from __repr__ and __str__ of my custom classes. Is there any way to get rich tables string?

[willmcgugan]

I wouldn't recommend returning a string with formatting or ansi codes from repr and str. They may end up formatted badly depending on the context.

However if you really want to do it, you can capture the output.