asciimatics VS plumbum

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.

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.

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

Download fireworks.py

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid

if you liked that, you'll love Plumbum[1] :)

[1] https://github.com/tomerfiliba/plumbum

plumbum

I wonder if you included plumbum in your comparison. For some reason, my long time favorite module for this (and more) always gets overlooked.

You'll still have to juggle the input, but when using Python, plumbum offers a solid function for this: choose

It's kinda a nice thing. And the few people that need something like this are already using https://xon.sh/ or https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/ or https://ipython.org/ . You can have a look at these projects though. See what works and doesn't to guide the goals of your own project.