picotui VS npyscreen

Compare picotui vs npyscreen and see what are their differences.

picotui

Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project. (by pfalcon)

npyscreen

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen (by npcole)
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picotui npyscreen
5 1
782 452
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0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago about 1 year ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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picotui

Posts with mentions or reviews of picotui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.

npyscreen

Posts with mentions or reviews of npyscreen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-16.
  • Textual: A Python Text User Interface with Rich as the Renderer
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2021
    It's great to see some more competitors on the TUI front of the Python ecosystem! I recently tried multiple existing frameworks and was not particularly happy with the state.

    Here are the main contenders for libraries that provide higher-level API than urwid/ncurses:

    * Picotui, https://github.com/pfalcon/picotui

    * Npyscreen, https://github.com/npcole/npyscreen

    * py_cui, https://github.com/jwlodek/py_cui

    Both Picotui and Npyscreen are relatively unmaintained / considered feature-full. py_cui seems to be in the best shape.

    Fingers crossed for this project making it through, building on top of Rich gives it quite a bit of headstart. You can also sponsor @willmcgugan on Github [0].

    [0]: https://github.com/sponsors/willmcgugan

What are some alternatives?

When comparing picotui and npyscreen you can also consider the following projects:

pytermgui - Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!

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.

py_cui - A python library for intuitively creating CUI/TUI interfaces with widgets, inspired by gocui.

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

micropython-ssd1327 - MicroPython driver for SSD1327 128x128 4-bit greyscale OLED displays

picoweb - Really minimal web application framework for the Pycopy project (minimalist Python dialect) and its "uasyncio" async framework

micropython-lib - Core Python libraries ported to MicroPython

suckless-dmenu-python - A python wrapper for dmenu - a fork of https://github.com/allonhadaya/dmenu-python

pycopy - Pycopy - a minimalist and memory-efficient Python dialect. Good for desktop, cloud, constrained systems, microcontrollers, and just everything.