Extensions for using Rich with Django.
Python 3.7 to 3.11 supported.
Django 3.2 to 4.1 supported.
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Install with pip:
python -m pip install django-rich
A subclass of Django’s BaseCommand
class that sets its self.console
to a Rich Console
.
The Console
uses the command’s stdout
argument, which defaults to sys.stdout
.
Colourization is enabled or disabled according to Django’s --no-color
and --force-color
flags.
You can use self.console
like so:
from django_rich.management import RichCommand
class Command(RichCommand):
def handle(self, *args, **options):
self.console.print("[bold red]Alert![/bold red]")
You can customize the construction of the Console
by overriding the make_rich_console
class attribute.
This should be a callable that returns a Console
, such as a functools.partial
.
For example, to disable the default-on markup
and highlighting
flags:
from functools import partial
from django_rich.management import RichCommand
from rich.console import Console
class Command(RichCommand):
make_rich_console = partial(Console, markup=False, highlight=False)
def handle(self, *args, **options):
...
A subclass of Django's DiscoverRunner
with colourized outputs and nice traceback rendering.
To use this class, point your TEST_RUNNER
setting to it:
TEST_RUNNER = "django_rich.test.RichRunner"
You can also use it as a base for further customization. Since only output is modified, it should combine well with other classes.
The test runner provides the following features:
- Output is colourized wherever possible. This includes Rich’s default highlighting which will format numbers, quoted strings, URL’s, and more.
- Failures and errors use Rich’s traceback rendering. This displays the source code and local values per frame. Each frame also shows the filename and line number, and on many terminals you can click the link to jump to the file at that position.
- Output is also colourized when using the
--debug-sql
and--pdb
flags. - All other flags from Django's DiscoverRunner continue to work in the normal way.
When tests run on your CI system, you might find the output a bit narrow for showing tracebacks correctly.
This is because Rich tries to autodetect the terminal dimensions, and if that fails, it will default to 80 characters wide.
You can override this default with the COLUMNS
environment variable (as per Python’s shutil.get_terminal_size()
function):
$ COLUMNS=120 ./manage.py test