Flex Height - For output without fixed height?

[volundmush]

I'm working on a MUD that uses Rich and I'd love to use the Layout and Panel widgets. The only problem is that as things seem to be working out right now, if I do something like this...

    async def login_screen(self, connection: "Connection"):

        layout = Layout()

        # Connections
        conn_table = Table(title="Connections", box=ASCII2, safe_box=True, expand=True, border_style="bold magenta")
        conn_table.add_column("Protocol", overflow="fold")
        conn_table.add_column("Address", overflow="fold")
        conn_table.add_column("Conn_ID", overflow="fold")
        conn_table.add_column("Conn", overflow="fold", max_width=5)
        conn_table.add_column("Idle", overflow="fold", max_width=5)
        for k, v in self.connections.items():
            if not v:
                continue
            conn_table.add_row(str(v.details.protocol), v.details.host_address, v.details.client_id,
                               f"{int(v.get_conn_time())}", f"{int(v.get_idle_time())}")

        # Sessions
        sess_table = Table(title="Characters", box=ASCII2, safe_box=True, expand=True, border_style="bold magenta")
        sess_table.add_column("Name", overflow="fold")
        sess_table.add_column("Connections", overflow="fold")
        sess_table.add_column("Runtime", overflow="fold", max_width=5)
        sess_table.add_column("Idle", overflow="fold", max_width=5)
        for k, v in self.characters.items():
            if not v:
                continue
            if v.session:
                sess_table.add_row(v.mobile.name, ", ".join(v.session.connections.keys()),
                                   f"{int(v.get_conn_time())}", f"{int(v.get_idle_time())}")
            else:
                sess_table.add_row(v.mobile.name, "N/A", "N/A", "N/A")

        layout.split_column(
            Layout(conn_table),
            Layout(sess_table)
        )

        panel = Panel(layout, title=f"Account: " + self.account.name, box=ASCII2,
                      safe_box=True, border_style="bold magenta", expand=True)

        return panel

When it prints to console, it assumes a huge, fixed height and there's a ton of empty space after each table!

Is there some way to tell it that I don't have a concept of fixed height, it should only use what it needs for both tables? No padded extra space and no limit to how high it can get either.

[volundmush]

Not two minutes after I posted this, did I realize that I can just create a single-column table and add the other tables as rows.

That works.

But I'm still curious about this topic. What can be said about it?