Gooey
asciimatics
| Gooey | asciimatics | |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | 18 | |
| 21,334 | 4,101 | |
| 0.6% | 1.2% | |
| 0.0 | 6.9 | |
| 4 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Gooey
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Fang, the CLI Starter Kit
It would be really cool if you Fang could generate a TUI form for you with https://github.com/charmbracelet/huh (by the same org). Is something like that on the roadmap?
Similar work: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey and https://github.com/Sorcerio/Argparse-Interface
I've wanted to do this for my own CLI framework since 2023 ( https://github.com/bbkane/warg/issues/71 ), but I still haven't gotten around to it :D
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Gooey VS mininterface - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 20 May 2025
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Gooey: My take on a Rusty GUI framework
The name conflicts with a similar python module that allows one to turn any Python console program into a GUI with one line.
https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 11 Dec 2023
- Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line
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Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
Hey! Cool project! I have a question: why do you dump out sys.argv to a local file in the CWD? [0] tmp.txt is hardly a unique name… or am I missing something and this never triggers?
[0] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/blob/be4b11b8f27f500e732...
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PysimpleGUI
This might be of interest to you:
> Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line
https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
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Python GUIs
I love gooey: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
It allows me to quickly slap a GUI on an existing script that accepts command-line-arguments. In the end, I get the best of both world: Discoverability from the GUI, automation through the script, and automatic feature parity between the two.
Downside: Control over the GUI layout is basic, and only "standard" GUI features work, but I never felt limited when using it.
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Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes
similar for local/individual usage:
https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey - take a python-CLI, make a TK-windows
and then probably even simple dashboarding like streamlit.
asciimatics
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5 Best Python TUI Libraries for Building Text-Based User Interfaces
5.ASCIIMATICS ASCIIMATICS A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
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What is your go-to UI framework?
For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.
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How to format output for a stand-alone display screen? Larger numbers, colors, redrawing the screen from the top left instead of printing a new line every time?
If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.
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I'm making a notes app and am up to making an 'edit' feature, but have no way of making changes to a file's contents, let alone saving the changes and writing them to the file
Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics
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Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art 🎆🎇
Download fireworks.py
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Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art
Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py
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ShyySH: a TUI connection manager for SSH
I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.
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Best library for TUI (Text User Interface) and CLI (Command line Interface)
Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.
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CLI Tools on windows [Python]
I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.
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Making ascii “animation” look smoother.
Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid
What are some alternatives?
Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.
colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python
typer - Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.
python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
click - Python composable command line interface toolkit
textual - Lean TUI application framework for Python. Build sophisticated terminal user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.