[help] How can I write my output into a file while keeping color

Is it possible to write our output into a file while keeping the color. And when we do less -R see it with color?

I have tried following:

from rich.console import Console
from datetime import datetime

with open("report.txt", "wt") as report_file:
    console = Console(file=report_file)
    console.rule(f"Report Generated {datetime.now().ctime()}")
    console.print("[blue]hello[/blue]")
    console.file.write("[blue]hello[/blue]")

but hello is written without color into the report.txt file.

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When I try console.file.write("[blue]hello[/blue]")

screenshot for cat report.txt | less -R:

[willmcgugan]

Please see https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/console.html#terminal-detection

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