Any way to save a Table as a sting?

[pcroland]

I'm trying to return a rich.Table in python-telegram-bot but it seems there's no .to_string() or anything similar available for it.

[geekya215]

The simple way is to write the output to a file and then read it, or write the output to a buffer and use it directly.

Here is an example of using StringIO to write output directly to a buffer.

from io import StringIO
from rich.table import Table
from rich import print as rprint

table = Table(title="Star Wars Movies")

table.add_column("Released", justify="right", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
table.add_column("Title", style="magenta")
table.add_column("Box Office", justify="right", style="green")

table.add_row("Dec 20, 2019", "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker", "$952,110,690")
table.add_row("May 25, 2018", "Solo: A Star Wars Story", "$393,151,347")
table.add_row("Dec 15, 2017", "Star Wars Ep. V111: The Last Jedi", "$1,332,539,889")
table.add_row("Dec 16, 2016", "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "$1,332,439,889")

buffer = StringIO()
rprint(table, file=buffer)
table_str = buffer.getvalue()
print(table_str)
buffer.close()