escapyde VS urwid

Personally I split this up even further nowadays into a separate group for tests (such as here).

It's a bit too late for me to give a proper explanation right now, but if an example repository is enough: https://github.com/Diapolo10/escapyde

The established convention is to have metadata files in the repository root, and the project source code nested a level deeper. escapyde would be a fairly simple example of that.

Well, my GitHub profile is part of my flair in this subreddit, feel free to dig around. My latest project was an attempt to port the ms JavaScript library to Python, and I think I did alright. Other things I can highlight would be my iplib3 package, a server implementation for the EguiValet messaging service, and finally I've got a fairly unfinished text colouring utility called escapyde.

I wrote something similar for escapyde, which could be repurposed to do exactly that. See the escape_format function.

I don't have any Twine examples of my own, but here's one using GitHub Actions to upload files to PyPI: https://github.com/Diapolo10/escapyde

Take my escapyde-project as a small example. The README is at least somewhat helpful, the code files are in a dedicated folder while the root just contains metadata, the dependencies are properly listed in pyproject.toml (could be just requirements.txt in your case, if you want to keep things simple), and the code itself is split across multiple files to make it easier to find what you're looking for. Though admittedly I haven't had time to write proper documentation for it.

Here's one of my own that's pretty small but decently designed: https://github.com/Diapolo10/escapyde

While not quite an executable, you can take a look at my escapyde library as an example. In every release I've bundled in a pre-compiled wheel (analogous to your executable), and a source distribution. Anyone can freely download any of these.

Pretty cool! I actually wrote something VERY similar a couple of years ago: sless[1]. It's a tool for viewing json-based structured logs. Just like your tool, you can explore into a json object. The difference is, it expects the input to have many json objects, newline separated, and it shows few keys as a preview of the object, to make looking for something in the log easier. It's not quite complete but basic browsing works. It was mainly written to learn more about Urwid[2], a library similar to Curses.

1: https://github.com/dpedu2/sless

2: https://urwid.org/

In addition to the other great libraries already mentioned, since you're in Python you may want to consider urwid, it's really robust and has a lot of built-ins.

To go full in on the latter case, people often use libraries like Cursive (akin to urwid for Python but without the horrendously confusing error messages caused duck typing) or tui.

If you have experience with text user interfaces in the past, you might come across other frameworks such as urwid, curtsies, asciimatics, prompt-toolkit to name a few. Nevertheless, If you have not, you are just fine because you are in the right place to learn about TUIs in general and using Textual specifically. I’ll show you how to develop a wordle clone step by step.

Check also urwid. It's more likely a modern text-based interface library for Python. https://github.com/urwid/urwid

Curses seems difficult to use but you should investigate whether it works with what you want to do. https://urwid.org/ seems fun as an alternative.

You can also take a look at https://urwid.org/

urwid is Python, and looks good.