Convert string from Text to str keeping ansi escape codes intact

[iwconfig]

Hello!

I've been wandering around the roads of the internet for hours. Is it possible to use rich.text.Text to return a str of the formatted text? Like an inverse of Text.from_ansi that would look something like this:

>>> s = Text.to_ansi('[b]This is bold text.')
>>> str(s)
'\x1b[1mThis is bold text.\x1b[0m'

[iwconfig]

OK I found out one can do

>>> S = Style(bold=True)
>>> s = S.render('This is bold text.')
>>> str(s)
'\x1b[1mThis is bold text.\x1b[0m'

I suppose that could work but I'd prefer using markup

[willmcgugan]

See the docs for how to capture output.

[iwconfig]

Oh! How could I miss that. I thought of Console.capture as rich version of some sort of builtins.input kind of thing. I skimmed through to fast I guess. Oh well!

from rich.console import Console
console = Console()

def text_to_ansi(s):
    with console.capture() as capture:
        console.print(s)
    return capture.get()

s = text_to_ansi('[b]This is bold text.')
str(s)
# '\x1b[1mThis is bold text.\x1b[0m\n'

Easy! Thank you so much Will! I have to say, I'm so impressed with Rich and Textual. Such cool tools. 🤩