Ellipsis position

[wabiloo]

When using overflow "ellipsis", is there a way of defining where the ellipsis should be placed?
Sometimes I need to print strings in which the most significant information is at the end (eg. A path) or both at end and start but not middle (eg. A URL)

[Hetari]

I think you are talking about ellipsis in Console(), see this, it may help you:

Note

In this code you can remove the overflow='ellipsis' and it will show the same output.

from rich.console import Console

console = Console()

long_string = "This is a really really really long string that needs to be truncated"

# Taking the last 30 characters
truncated_start = long_string[-30:]  
console.print(f"Truncated at the start: ...{truncated_start}", overflow='ellipsis')

mid = len(long_string) // 2
truncated_middle = long_string[:15] + "..." + long_string[-15:]
console.print(f"Truncated in the middle: {truncated_middle}", overflow='ellipsis')

truncated_end = long_string[:30]  # Taking the first 30 characters
console.print(f"Truncated at the end: {truncated_end}...", overflow='ellipsis')

The output is:

Truncated at the start: ...ing that needs to be truncated
Truncated in the middle: This is a reall...to be truncated
Truncated at the end: This is a really really really...

[wabiloo]

OK, you're showing a mechanism where I manage the ellipsis myself, and - as you say - will work in the same way without overflow='ellipsis'. I was hoping for a mechanism managed entirely by Rich...

[Hetari]

I don't think rich can do that with the overflow option! I searched the docs and saw nothing useful for your case, be sure to search the docs again (maybe you'll find something helpful), and search for other issues too.