Textual: A Python Text User Interface with Rich as the Renderer

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  • textual

    Textual is a Rapid Application Development framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and (coming soon) a web browser!

  • picotui

    Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project.

    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

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  • npyscreen

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

    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

  • py_cui

    A python library for intuitively creating CUI/TUI interfaces with widgets, inspired by gocui.

    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

  • asciimatics

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

    Have you tried ASCIImatics? https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

    A project I’m considering would have something similar to the Django admin interface but a TUI with keyboard shortcuts like shift+F9 and I’d like a “pick one and stick with it” recommendation for a TUI toolkit. That said, if a TUI front end for Django admin tasks already exists and I’ve missed it, I’d love to just use that rather than starting from scratch.

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