How do I pad strings with custom fill charcter

[bytefoot]

I' have just discovered this awesome library, so i was just trying to incorporate this into on of my projects. I would like to know to how to justify strings with a particular fill/padding character other than the default space.

Currently, my code is like this:

from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
console.print("Hello World!", justify='center')

This works as expected and gives the result "Hello World!" padded with space. But how do i get it padded with some other character?

[willmcgugan]

There is a Padding class, but that only uses spaces. I didn't occur to me that anyone would want to pad with anything else.

However, a rule might be want you want. Try this...

from rich.console import Console
console = Console()
console.rule("[b]Hello, World", characters="*-")

[bytefoot]

I guess this hack might just fill-in my requirement. Though the spaces between title and fill wasn't expected, this might suffice. I hope this padding feature would be considered in the future. Thanks.