rainbowstream VS asciimatics

Or try RainbowStream

rainbowstream - command line character based Twitter client See the rainbowstream usage manual to get started

During Solène's Old Computer Challenge, I tried several CLI/TUI clients for Twitter. While none of them were particularly pleasant enough to make me want to use them long-term, rainbowstream was the least-bad one and what I ended up using for that week.

This is the heart of this post: Setting up a social tab where I (as a shy developer) can interact with the whole world. It consists of a pane for Twitter (made possible by rainbowstream, which automatically push new tweets to your timeline.

Rainbowstream is my favourite of the clients I have mentioned here. It is feature-rich, and enables a decent use of Twitter without being as distracting as the official clients. After installing Rainbowstream, run:

For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

Download fireworks.py

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid