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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Rich Console Status Visual Bug","articleBody":"### Description\nUsing the `Cmd.p*` output methods from while a rich status spinner is running causes the messages to merge on the terminal.\n\n### Environment\n- Windows 11\n- Windows Terminal Version: 1.23.20211.0\n- Python 3.12.2\n- cmd2-3.2.0\n\n### Steps to Reproduce\n```python\nimport time\nfrom argparse import Namespace\n\nfrom cmd2 import Cmd, with_category\nfrom rich.console import Console\n\nTEST_CATAGORY: str = \"Test Commands\"\nconsole = Console()\n\n\nclass MyCmd(Cmd):\n    @with_category(TEST_CATAGORY)\n    def do_exemplar(self, args: Namespace):\n        \"\"\"This is what the status is expected to look like.\"\"\"\n        with console.status(\"Working!\"):\n            for _ in range(10):\n                console.log(\"console.log: Hello from cmd!\")\n                time.sleep(0.1)\n\n    @with_category(TEST_CATAGORY)\n    def do_problem(self, args: Namespace):\n        \"\"\"Demonstrate the problem.\"\"\"\n        with console.status(\"Working!\"):\n            for _ in range(10):\n                self.pwarning(\"pwarning: Hello from cmd!\")\n                time.sleep(0.1)\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n    MyCmd().cmdloop()\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"390\" height=\"456\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a7141af4-b665-4709-a7f1-8e3b341425a0\" /\u003e\n\n### Solutions\n\nI did some digging into `rich` and `cmd2` and could not find a way to insert my own console instance into the `cmd2.Cmd` for use with the print methods (`cmd2.Cmd.p*`). If there is an obvious solution, please let me know. I have been a long time user of this package and the new changes integrating `rich` are very exciting.\n\nOne possible fix would be to not create a new console object for each call to the print methods. I am not really sure how easy that will be to change or maintain. There could be a console attribute for the `cmd2.Cmd` class or `cmd2` could manage a global console object like how `rich` [does](https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/rich/__init__.py#L23).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ShiftPoster","@type":"Person","name":"ShiftPoster"},"datePublished":"2026-02-19T01:44:33.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/1578/cmd2/issues/1578"}