Widgets rendering now returns __repr__ instead of rendered version in 0.87.1

[pablogsal]

Have you checked closed issues? https://github.com/Textualize/textual/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

Looks like after the 0.87.1 release some widgets are returning the __repr__ instead of the rendered text when the render() method is called. For example:

0.87.1

(Pdb) p widget
Label(id='pid')
(Pdb) p widget.render().__str__()
"RichVisual(Label(id='head_title'), <text 'Memray live tracking' [Span(0, 6, 'bold')] ''>)"

before:

(Pdb) p widget
Label(id='head_title')
(Pdb) p widget.render().__str__()
'Memray live tracking'

I couldn't find this change in the changeling here

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[pablogsal]

If this is expected, what would be the way to get the rendered version after 0.87.1?

[willmcgugan]

That is expected from anything that extends Static, which includes Label. You could use the renderable attribute, which will return the original value before it was wrapped in RichVisual.

[pablogsal]

Great, that works! Thanks a lot @willmcgugan ❤️

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