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  • 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.

  • wtpython

    Automatically find solutions when your Python code encounters an issue.

    I'm the author of Rich, a Python library for fancy formatting in the terminal. Textual is a framework I'm building around Rich for creating terminal applications. It's powered by async and borrows a number of techniques from web development.

    It's still in active development, but it has reached a point where you can play with it. The most recent release adds a tree control which you can use to navigate a directory and pick files.

    My hope is that a Textual UI will be at-least as easy to write as a command line interface, and projects will grow a --tui switch to launch an interactive app.

    There's already an app using Textual: [wtpython](https://github.com/what-the-python/wtpython)

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  • rich

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

    I'm a big fan of Rich [1], thank you Will for creating it! Very impressive to see how much it evolved over the last year.

    [1] https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

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