py_cui VS pytermgui

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].

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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.

Hi. So I got bored, and now I'm making an operating system in Python. (Just something to do.) It's a good excuse to work with TUI's, though. Does anyone have a recommendation for a tutorial on PyTermGUI? I read the docs, but they're a bit daunting, and I don't really understand it. Thanks.

Talking about resources, their docs are pretty good and contains some examples too. Documentation: https://ptg.bczsalba.com/pytermgui.html

I suspect that the reason you didn't find much is that usually people need a whole textual user interface (or TUI). And there's quite a few libraries for those, like pytermgui or textual, and some more low-level tools in that area like prompt-toolkit

PyTermGUI, my terminal user interface library has now gained the ability to determine the highest-grade color that can be displayed in the terminal emulator it is running in, so that it can convert anything you would normally not be able to see into a color supported. This calculation is done with human perception of colors and brightness factored in, so it looks surprisingly accurate, even with only 16 colors.

My Python-based TUI library, PyTermGUI now has the ability to gracefully degrade any color to the current terminal emulator's capabilities, completely automatically! AFAIK it is one of the first libraries of its kind to gain this feature, as I couldn't really find any implementations of it to base mine from. (That, or I'm just not that great at Google-ing.)

This specific part of the code is not on GitHub at the moment as there is a lot of experimenting going on, but it will be pushed as the new APIs mature and I clean the code up.

For more information about this release, check out the release notes!

To read more, see the release notes.