Is there a way to do this like textwrap.fill does?

I am wondering if there is a way to do this in rich (sort of how textwrap does):

MyStr = textwrap.fill(line, width=xxx, initial_indent=“”, subsequent_indent=" ")

I love how rich handles the width of the screen, especially with colors, but it doesn’t have an option for subsequent wraps.

I’d like the output to look something like this:

definition:      this is a short definition
another here:    this is a longer definition of 
     things here, that just keeps on going
     and going 
some other term: you get the idea now

Rather than what I get now:

definition:      this is a short definition
another here:    this is a longer definition of 
things here, that just keeps on going and going 
some other term: you get the idea now

Colors help, but I would like the extra indent to differentiate as well.

A way around this would be if there was a function that would return the (colorized) string WITHOUT printing it. Then I could call the textwrap functions myself. I looked, and if there is one, I missed it.

Anyway, thanks for the great software. Really like using it!

Thanks! Mike

[legacy-code]

@willmcgugan Thanks for the info.

That’s unfortunate with textwrap though. Good to know that it can be done though!

I do like the solution with the table/grid solutions. Those worked great!

Thanks for the quick turnaround!

[willmcgugan]

You can render to a string with the following pattern:

console = Console(file=io.StringIO(), force_terminal=True)
console.print(text)
table_str = console.file.getvalue()

Unfortunately you won’t be able to use the result with textwrap, which won’t handle the invisible control codes correctly.