netpen vs asciimatics

netpen

netpen (by ebirger)

asciimatics

A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations (by peterbrittain)

Command-line Tools Command-line Application Development Python Curses Console TUI ascii-art Cross-Platform Terminal

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netpen		asciimatics
	Project
1	Mentions	17
37	Stars	3,530
-	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	7.6
9 months ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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netpen

Posts with mentions or reviews of netpen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-27.

Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022

asciimatics

Posts with mentions or reviews of asciimatics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

What is your go-to UI framework?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 27 Jun 2023

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.
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?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 30 May 2023

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.
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
1 project | /r/learnpython | 19 Jan 2023

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics
Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art 🎆🎇
1 project | /r/ProgrammerTIL | 12 Jan 2023

Download fireworks.py
Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art
1 project | /r/programming | 29 Dec 2022

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py
ShyySH: a TUI connection manager for SSH
3 projects | /r/Python | 17 Nov 2022

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.
Best library for TUI (Text User Interface) and CLI (Command line Interface)
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 20 Oct 2022

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.
CLI Tools on windows [Python]
1 project | /r/commandline | 25 Jul 2022

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.
Making ascii “animation” look smoother.
1 project | /r/learnpython | 21 Jul 2022

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid
Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022

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When comparing netpen and asciimatics you can also consider the following projects:

ditaa - ditaa is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics.

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

wtf-tui - Text-based UI tool for configuring the WTF terminal dashboard

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

svg-term-cli - Share terminal sessions via SVG and CSS

textual - The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

draw - Draw in your terminal

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line

lookatme - An interactive, terminal-based markdown presenter

Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

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npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen