Retrieving the raw string of a Renderable

[cadojo]

Is there any way to retrieve the raw string of a Renderable?

For example, say I have some padding p = Padding("[green[A message", (0,2)) which will print two spaces before the text. I could accomplish this simple example with something like rich.print(" [green]A message").

Is there any supported way to retrieve what would go in the rich.print statement to equivalently print other Renderables?

[paw-lu]

Probably the easiest way to do this is to capture the output via io.StringIO

import io

from rich import console

con = console.Console(file=io.StringIO(), force_terminal=True)
con.print("[bold red]Hello[/] World")
str_output = con.file.getvalue()

print(f"  {str_output}")

Docs for more info.

[willmcgugan]

See also https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/console.html#capturing-output