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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"CLI `_echo` doesn't work without `import rich` for non-String reports","articleBody":"For example this CLI command will throw an exception is `rich` isn't installed, although it works fine otherwise:\n```\nkasa --host 192.168.1.168 --username xxx --password xxx feature check_latest_firmware\nDiscovering device 192.168.1.168 for 10 seconds\nExecuting action check_latest_firmware\nRaised error: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'UpdateInfo'\nRun with --debug enabled to see stacktrace\n```\n\nthe reason for this error reported by `--debug`:\n```\n[...]\nRaised error: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'UpdateInfo'\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n[...]\nFile \"/home/mash/.local/share/uv/tools/python-kasa/lib/python3.13/site-packages/kasa/cli/feature.py\", line 125, in feature\n    echo(response)\n    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"/home/mash/.local/share/uv/tools/python-kasa/lib/python3.13/site-packages/kasa/cli/common.py\", line 57, in echo\n    _echo(*args, **kwargs)\n    ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n  File \"/home/mash/.local/share/uv/tools/python-kasa/lib/python3.13/site-packages/kasa/cli/common.py\", line 45, in wrapper\n    message = rich_formatting.sub(\"\", message)\nTypeError: expected string or bytes-like object, got 'UpdateInfo'\n```\n\nThe regex substitution used in this replacement for `rich`s `print()` function only works for strings.\n\nMore complex objects need to be preprocessed by `repr()` in advance.  ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mash-graz","@type":"Person","name":"mash-graz"},"datePublished":"2025-11-29T05:37:52.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/1618/python-kasa/issues/1618"}