py_cui VS blessed

py_cui - Another curses wrapper

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

So, when I found the different commands to get back my file and recover it, I wanted to create a clear UI to do it. Searching for a CUI library, I've stumbled upon py_cui, based on curses, it has a really easy learning curve. Easy to get it running.

I dit it with py_cui, it's based on curses library but really easier to work with.

So, when I found the different commands to get back my file and recover it, I wanted to create a clear UI to do it. Searching for a CUI library, I've stumbled upon py_cui, based on curses, it has a really easy learning curve. Easy to get it running.

If this piques your interest and you use Python, check out the blessed library: https://github.com/jquast/blessed

I recently posted in last week's sharing saturday, introducing myself and my new project Age of Bronze and Iron, an ancient-greece themed Roguelike which I recently began using the textbook python+libtcod tut. I would really like to ditch libtcod in favor of a genuine text-mode display library. To that end I've looked around at the different options and think I have decided, after reading the documentation, to give it a try using blessed, since it seems featureful and (most important for a newbie with relatively limited time) easy to use.

Well, my current plan is to use one of the more modern curses-replacements (I'm thinking of blessed, a blessings fork), since they seem a lot easier to use than curses. If I hit a speed bottleneck with blessed, the plan is to switch over to curses...

I created a terminal app called Objexplore to interactively inspect and explore Python objects. It was a fun project and uses the rich and blessed packages. Take a look at the github readme for a quick demo.

blessed - This module is a wrapper around curses, and aims to make doing things with it simpler.

You might also consider more modern approach like blessed or maybe go low-level in the style of how urwid handles terminal input and output.