---
title: "PyCon Sweden: Rich-click"
description: "Accidentally popular: Beautiful CLI interfaces with rich-click"
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2024/11/14/pycon_sweden_rich-click"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Talks"
type: "Conference talk"
date: "2024-11-14"
location: "Stockholm"
event:
  - "https://pycon.se/"
  - "https://pretalx.com/pyconse-2024/talk/XP7GWN/"
slides: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2024/11/14/pycon_sweden_rich-click/Ewels-PyCon-Sweden-2024.pdf"
video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGSYj_5tGmY"
---

# PyCon Sweden: Rich-click

> Accidentally popular: Beautiful CLI interfaces with rich-click

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](https://github.com/Textualize/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](https://github.com/pallets/click).

With a little help from Will and others, I put together the [rich-click](https://github.com/ewels/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](https://github.com/dwreeves)) came to my aid to co-maintain the project 🎉

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt