Including excerpts of another program output

[beldy-cola]

I am building an application with Rich.

Now I want to launch a 3rd party program in a subprocess and capture its output to show some bits of it in my application. The 3rd party program has ansi colored output which helps a lot with grasping it so I would like to retain.

Is there a way to print colored excerpts right away using Rich builtins?

Of course I can build a simple parser to convert ANSI codes to Rich formatting but I would like not to do so unless there is no easy way to use Rich tools as I think my code will be really bad and slow.

[willmcgugan]

You are in luck. There is an undocumented AnsiDecoder class which will convert ansi codes in Rich's Text objects.