pdfmerger VS textual

I think that tkinter is "good enough" for most cases that need a GUI in pythonb these days (for more complex stuff you'd better go with either a web app or a compiled language that creates normal desktop apps).

As a showcase I've built two simple utils with python and tk (and pyinstaller):

- https://github.com/spapas/pdfmerger a simple tool to merge pdfs into one

- https://github.com/spapas/pomo ; a simple pomodoro timer

The Textual project has a lot of screenshots in its documentation. These screenshots are built with the docs, so they are always up to date.

https://textual.textualize.io/

Textual[0] does this for CLI apps. That’s not for full GUI apps, but it’s very DOM-like, uses CSS selectors, etc. and a cool option when it meets your needs.

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual

For future projects that need a TUI beyond normal printing to a terminal, I'd recommend taking a look at Textual.

https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/code-outputs.html#...

`less -R` is not the default.

FWIW, textual (and urwid) does ANSII escape codes well: https://github.com/Textualize/textual

  touch file$'\n'name

After installing logmerger, you can run a self-contained demo by running logmerger --demo, to view two log files before and after they are merged, and to play with the user-interface features provided by textual.

I think it just survived naturally, filling in the cracks left by Java / C++.

And not the era of Textual (https://textual.textualize.io/) is here, python may get the spotlight even more.