github flavored markdown

[bytearchive]

can rich output GitHub flavored markdown? or can it be customized?

[willmcgugan]

Rich uses commonmark. If there is a GH markdown parser for Python then you could certainly use Rich as a renderer.

[emeryberger]

Is it possible to have Rich output Markdown (Commonmark is fine)?

[willmcgugan]

from rich.markdown import Markdown
from rich import print
print(Markdown("## It *sure* is!"))

[emeryberger]

I actually mean the reverse :). -- i.e., produce Markdown as output (but Commonmark is pretty thin; GFM supports tables and the like, making it a potentially reasonable output format for rich).

[emeryberger]

(I suspect that this was the intent of @bytearchive's question)

[willmcgugan]

Ah, gotcha.

Possible to some degree, but I don't think it could make a good job of it. Once rendered, Rich doesn't have any semantic information re the output, just a grid of characters.

[tompropst]

If anyone lands here looking primarily for table support...

echo "rich >=13" > overrides.txt
uv tool install rich-cli --overrides overrides.txt

Since rich-cli currently requires rich <13.0.0, this may have problems but so far it works well for me.