Automatic Jupyter environment detection

Something similar to tqdm’s auto module would be helpful. This would mean I can run the same code in Jupyter or a terminal and get the same rich experience.

Basically, it would just be a small wrapper that does a simple check to whether or not we are in an IPython environment or a regular Python one, and then import the console and print objects from the correct package. Then you could write code like this, knowing it would work wherever it was run:

from rich.auto import print

print("[bold magenta]Hello, world![\]")

Alternatively you could put this functionality into the default imports; I’m not sure why you would ever not want this (other than to avoid the overhead of checking, but that’s fairly minimal).

[willmcgugan]

For those interested, I have a ‘jupyter’ branch with improved Jupyter support.

It’s completely transparent now. The same imports and API will work in the terminal and notebook. Here is a screenshot:

[willmcgugan]

Yeah, I think I could do something along those lines.