Rich
If you find yourself constantly creating command-line interfaces and have not heard of rich, take a few hours next week and play with it!
Historically I've used termcolor and colorama to handle the pretty terminal colors in Python programs I write but now that I've discovered rich I'm not sure I'll ever go back. The project is well-maintained, feature rich and Will the author seems to have put a lot of effort into it.
Install
I prefer to use pipenv but you can use normal pip or poetry too of course.
Usage
This is mentioned in detail on the README for Rich but this was the most immediately useful example I took away for my CLI programs.
from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
console.print(f'[+] Building the mechtronics matrix splicer...', style="bold green")
In addition there is a wonderful track() function you can use to wrap around an iterator and have rich progress bars in your console. I have used this in some non-public programs but have yet to add it to anything that's on my GitHub repos or Gists.
Replacing Tabulate
I blogged about using the package tabulate previously when I developed a small API client to interact with AWS EC2 resources using boto3 but after finding the rich package I think I'm goint to explore using its table rendering features instead.