Rich has a number of :class:`~rich.prompt.Prompt` classes which ask a user for input and loop until a valid response is received. Here's a simple example::
The prompt may be given as a string (which may contain :ref:`console_markup` and emoji code) or as a :class:`~rich.text.Text` instance.
You can set a default value which will be returned if the user presses return without entering any text::
>>> from rich.prompt import Prompt
>>> name = Prompt.ask("Enter your name", default="Paul Atreides")
If you supply a list of choices, the prompt will loop until the user enters one of the choices::
>>> from rich.prompt import Prompt
>>> name = Prompt.ask("Enter your name", choices=["Paul", "Jessica", "Duncan"], default="Paul")
In addition to :class:`~rich.prompt.Prompt` which returns strings, you can also use :class:`~rich.prompt.IntPrompt` which asks the user for an integer, and :class:`~rich.prompt.FloatPrompt` for floats.
The :class:`~rich.prompt.Confirm` class is a specialized prompt which may be used to ask the user a simple yes / no question. Here's an example::
>>> from rich.prompt import Confirm
>>> is_rich_great = Confirm.ask("Do you like rich?")
>>> assert is_rich_great
The Prompt class was designed to be customizable via inheritance. See `prompt.py <https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/blob/master/rich/prompt.py>`_ for examples.
To see some of the prompts in action, run the following command from the command line::
