Is there any way to render a _rich_ object to `str`?

I currently use io.StringIO to get a str. Is there any simpler way to do it?

from io import StringIO

from rich.table import Table
from rich.console import Console

buf = StringIO()
table = Table(...)
console(file=buf)
console.print(table)
buf.getvalue()  # this is the `str` I would like

I find __repr__ and __str__ output the same thing like <rich.table.Table object at 0x7fc9cd308ac0>, may be rich can provide an api of __str__ or .to_str()

[willmcgugan]

Perhaps the force_jupyter parameter in the Console constructor should have three states; False to disable jupyter, True to enable it, and a default of None to auto detect.

That way you could force_jupyter=False in __str__ so you always get a string.

[honno]

Awesome, thanks so much!

(I had actually encountered a problem with the notebook hosting platform Kaggle today, where Jupyter-rendered text is printed white… on a white background! So to use my library on it nicely, I really did need this behaviour in the end.)

For future reference, the below worked well for me.

from io import StringIO

from rich.console import Console
...
class MyClass():
    ...
    def __rich__(self):   # or __rich_console__
        ...

    def __str__(self):
        buf = StringIO()
        console = Console(file=buf, force_jupyter=False)
        console.print(self)

        return buf.getvalue()