format stripping feature?

[matanox]

Hi,

Any chance we could get back from Rich the string stripped of its formatting substrings?
So that if at any point in user code we have a formatted string, we would be able to, in parallel to writing it to the terminal, write it to a file without the formatting substrings which are included in it?

As I understand, Rich's print does not have a markup:bool attribute for this behavior, whereas its Console object is only meant for making output to a console, not a file, which leaves the above unsatisfiable, but maybe I'm missing an existing api for this!

The closest existing discussion may be #2926, which is a little related but different. It might be the same as #2032, just not in the context of using the logger class.

Admiteddly this is a bit like a logging scenario where you would not want the Rich-specific formatting markdown to appear in the log, whereas the messages are originally created in the application with Rich formatting in them.

Thanks for Rich and thanks for your opinion!

[willmcgugan]

Something like this should do it.

Text.from_markup("[magenta]Hello world!").plain