[BUG] Coloring does not work in PyCharm

Just checked - it seems to be a PyCharm problem, I will report it there, so this report is just FYI for rich users who use PyCharm. It works in the PyCharm terminal (command line), but not inside the stdout pane of PyCharm.

Reproduction Replace print() statement with console.print(string, style=‘bold red’). The string is printed, but no coloring.

from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
console.print('==> Mismatches were found in one or more platforms <==', style='bold red')

Windows 10, PyCharm Community (lastest), Python 3.8, Rich 5.0.0

[willmcgugan]

Not without breaking things for other users.

[willmcgugan]

Interesting. That suggest the stdout window is not an embedded console. Rich will disable color if it detects it is not connected to a real terminal.

You could try this:

console = Console(color_system="windows")

That will force Rich to write color, but if PyCharm can’t handle it, you may end up with garbage.