[REQUEST] tab_size=None keeps and doesn't replace tab-characters

Have you checked the issues for a similar suggestions? I have googled, but couldn’t find any discussion naming this issue.

I have found no way to set tab_size in the console to None, meaning that tab-characters should not be replaced and kept as-is.

Give as much detail as you can. Example code of how you would like it to work would help.

What I’d like to achieve is the ability to print a csv-table with tabulators as delimiters. Yet I have found no way to do that using rich - all tabulator-characters are replaced with a varying amount of spaces.

>>> from rich.console import Console
>>> c = Console(tab_size=None)
>>> c.print("a\tb")
a       b
>>> print("a\t")  # I'd like to have an option to get this output from rich as well
a\tb

What problem do you have that this feature would solve? I may be able to suggest an existing way of solving it.

In rich text it should be possible to print a tab-character as-is 😃.

[fjellvannet]

That completely does the trick! Thank you very much for your fast answer

tor. 26. mai 2022, 17:01 skrev Will McGugan @.***>:

Got you. Literal tab characters will pretty much break any kind of formatting Rich does, which is why they are replaced with spaces.

I’d suggest doing this:

if console.is_terminal: print_table(my_csv)else: console.file.write(my_csv)

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