typer VS python-prompt-toolkit

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

python-prompt-toolkit

Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python (by prompt-toolkit)
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typer python-prompt-toolkit
86 21
13,353 8,892
- 1.1%
6.7 7.8
about 24 hours ago 6 days ago
Python Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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typer

Posts with mentions or reviews of typer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-20.

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 typer and python-prompt-toolkit you can also consider the following projects:

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

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.

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.

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line

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

cement - Application Framework for Python