python Terminal Toolkit

Text-based user interface library (TUI) Evolved from the discontinued project pyCuT and inspired by a mix of Qt5,GTK, and tkinter api definition with a touch of personal interpretation

Features

• Basic widgets for TUI development (Button, Label, checkbox, ...)
• Specialized widgets to improve the usability (Windows, Frames, Tables, ...)
• QT Like Layout system to help arrange the widgets in the terminal
• True color support
• [TBD] Fullsize/Halfsize UTF-8 characters

Limitations

• The native Windows porting is not ready yet but it works with Cygwin or WSL.
• Only the key combinations forwarded by the terminal emulator used are detected (ALT,CTRL may not be handled)

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Powered by Pyodide and xterm.js and CodeMirror5 and w2ui

Tutorial

Be inspired by the tutorial examples

Api Definitions

Don't get bored by the Api Definitions

Install/Upgrade

pyTermTk is available on PyPI

pip3 install --upgrade pyTermTk

Quick Test/Try - no install required

Clone

clone https://github.com/ceccopierangiolieugenio/pyTermTk.git
cd pyTermTk

Run Basic (non ui) input test

python3 tests/test.input.py

Demos

# Press CTRL-C to exit
# the logs are written to "session.log"
# add "-f" option to run it in "fullscreen" :-D

# Showcase Demo
python3 demo/demo.py -f

# Paint demo
python3 demo/paint.py

# VSCode like d'n d layout demo
python3 demo/ttkode.py

# early gittk demo
python3 demo/gittk.py

# Text edit with "Pygments" highlight integrated
# it require pygments
#   pip install pygments
python3 tests/test.ui.018.TextEdit.Pygments.py README.md

Profiling

cProfile, cProfilev

python3 -m cProfile -o profiler.bin tests/test.ui.004.py

# install cprofilev:
#     pip3 install cprofilev
cprofilev -f profiler.bin
# open http://127.0.0.1:4000

pyroscope

pyroscope can be used as well for profiling

Projects using pyTermTk

• tlogg - A fast, advanced log explorer.
• ttkode - TerminalToolKit (Studio) Code (editor)
• pytest-fold - A Pytest plugin to make console output more manageable when there are multiple failed tests
• pytest-tui - A Text User Interface (TUI) for Pytest, automatically launched after your test run is finished

Related Projects

• Honourable mention

  • bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
    This was the base inspiration for my core library

• Python

  • urwid - Console user interface library for Python
  • pyTermGUI - A simple yet powerful TUI framework for your Python (3.7+) applications
  • Textual - TUI (Text User Interface) framework for Python inspired by modern web development
  • Rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
  • PyCuT - terminal graphic library loosely based on QT api (my previous failed attempt)
  • pyTooling.TerminalUI - A set of helpers to implement a text user interface (TUI) in a terminal.

• Non Python

  • Turbo Vision
  • ncurses
  • tui.el - An experimental text-based UI framework for Emacs modeled after React