Python-prompt-toolkit Alternatives

python-prompt-toolkit reviews and mentions

• Some Terminal Frustrations
  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2025
• Is there a library that can give python-prompt-toolkit like completion for TUI?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 9 Apr 2023

  Ref. https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit and https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt ?

• Show HN: Replbuilder, quickly build a Python REPL CLI prompt
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023

  > The purpose is not to do this however, the goal for a repl cli is usually to invoke a set of particular, already implemented commands, not on the fly python input and output. The implementation will be predefined and packaged, repl are only used to run a list of specific commands with arguments that implementation has already defined.

  That's a very strange definition for a REPL, I would just call that an (interactive) CLI. Maybe that's why you couldn't find anything when you were doing your search? I used python-prompt-toolkit [0] when building such interfaces. pgcli [1] is an example of such an interface built with prompt-toolkit.

  It has a lot of nice autocomplete and readline emulation options. Maybe it's something you can integrate with your project.

  [0] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

  [1] https://www.pgcli.com/

• TUI library with Sixel support?
  3 projects | /r/learnpython | 27 Nov 2022

  Euporie uses prompt_toolkit as its TUI library. prompt_toolkit does not specifically support terminal graphics, but I've written various of custom components and modifications to enable images to be displayed using terminal graphics.

• Why is the terminal input so weird?
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2022

  That bothered me too, the default function for Ctrl-W in ipython is unix-word-rubout from python-prompt-toolkit [1], which uses spaces for word boundaries. You can rebind it to backward-kill-word so it uses "not a letter nor a digit" as a word boundary.

  Here's a gist with my config (also binds shift-left/right arrow to move to previous space instead of visual select): https://gist.github.com/fratajczak/64e32421a43d3b8194d0409ce...

  [1]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob...

• Is there a library for creating interactive long running terminal applications?
  4 projects | /r/learnpython | 26 Mar 2022
• improved repl for lua?
  8 projects | /r/lua | 28 Feb 2022

  When coding in python I've used ptpython repl based on prompt-toolkit which has been used in numerous CLI programs https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob/master/PROJECTS.rst. I've also used mycli from that page. I've really enjoyed the UX of these. In addition to the syntax highlighting, auto/tab completions, (and maybe other enjoyable features) the vi-mode is amazingly helpful (for us vi folks) (it's probably got emacs bindings too). I would love to have all of this in a repl for lua.

• A simple tui to launch gzdoom mods
  2 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Feb 2022

  That's an interesting approach. I was also thinking of using a more sophisticated framework than whiptail, maybe the PromptToolkit. I guess it then would be more similar to the idea of using a text editor. I certainly do think a TUI may be overkill yet it was also a good excuse to practice some bash scripting for me.

• How to create terminal GUI?
  6 projects | /r/bash | 9 Feb 2022
• Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2022

  Try prompt_toolkit which is a Python library used by IPython among others: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

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