My first time going to a PyCon event and I was lucky enough to be accepted to give a talk. It was about a hobby project of mine: rich-click. It was great fun to write the talk as it was totally different to all of my usual topics, so I got to start with a clean slate. I was able to make it a bit fun and nerdy, and also talk about some of my favourite topics such as open-source.
The talk seemed to go down well and the event was great fun. I hope I’ll be able to go back again in future years :)
Abstract
In the past few years, Will McGugan’s Rich for formatting terminal outputs has had a meteoric rise in the Python community. As a user and fanboy of Rich, I felt that my otherwise beautiful CLI tools had drab and plain help text outputs from the Click CLI toolkit.
With a little help from Will and others, I put together the rich-click package that makes Click’s outputs delight your eyeballs with only a simple import alias required: import rich_click as click.
In this talk I’ll describe a little bit about how it works and what you can use it for, and how I dealt with it becoming accidentally quite popular and receiving a deluge of issues and contributions. Spoiler: the Python open-source community is amazing and Daniel Reeves (@dwreeves) came to my aid to co-maintain the project 🎉
