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].

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

You're probably going to want to do this in a TUI. If I was going to attempt this project, I think I'd try py_cui which was written by a fellow Redditor u/QbaPolak17. Another possible (buy maybe less pretty) option is picotui. I've not implemented either of these, but py_cui looks fun.

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.

Several libraries, such as urwid or PyTermGUI, allow the development of TUI applications in Python. For enhancing the functionality and aesthetics of TUI apps, they offer some fundamental and more sophisticated utilities. But there is one package that is truly exceptional and might even be so amazing that it sparks a TUI renaissance (I really wanted to put "TUI renaissance" somewhere in this article).

There are plenty of terminal UI libraries that are actually nice to work with. For Python, there's Textual and PyTermGUI. For Rust, there's ratatui and Cursive (or, if you want something a bit lower level, crosster or termion). For Go, there's bubbletea.

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

Have you tried PyTermGUI? It looks promising, but I wonder if there are any pitfalls. I need to build a professional CLI for a robot, and half-baked packages just won't do.

While the community is relatively small right now, my TUI framework PyTermGUI has a lot of the attributes you're looking for! We don't currently have a section dedicated to this yet, but if you come to the discord I'm sure we can help you :)

Check out the changelog here.

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