textual VS python-prompt-toolkit

Compare textual vs python-prompt-toolkit and see what are their differences.

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. (by Textualize)

python-prompt-toolkit

Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python (by prompt-toolkit)
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textual python-prompt-toolkit
149 21
23,264 8,892
2.6% 1.1%
9.9 7.8
1 day ago 7 days ago
Python Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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textual

Posts with mentions or reviews of textual. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

python-prompt-toolkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of python-prompt-toolkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing textual and python-prompt-toolkit you can also consider the following projects:

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

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

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

Turbo Vision - A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

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

urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

typer - Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen