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Blessed is an easy, practical library for making python terminal apps

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-02-18 · latest 2026-01-21

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  1. Blessed was a decent one iirc: https://github.com/jquast/blessed One reason for the lack of python might be the timing of the TUI renaissance, which I think happened (is happening?) alongside the rise of languages like Go and Rust.
    comment by wonger_ · 2026-01-21 · in Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
  2. If this piques your interest and you use Python, check out the blessed library: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
    comment by psim1 · 2022-05-18 · in Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals
  3. …the link! Some very nice examples of other cool stuff that depends on the blessed Python package: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
    comment by lumpa · 2021-02-16 · in Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
  4. In pythonland, you get a whole slew of TUI widget libraries Eg blessed https://github.com/jquast/blessed
    comment by setr · 2020-07-20 · in Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
  5. cool, here's mine in python https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/worms.py looks like https://asciinema.org/a/8682
    comment by jquast · 2020-02-06 · in Terminal Snake Game
  6. my toy 300 loc text editor for python, https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/editor.py
    comment by jquast · 2017-04-06 · in Build Your Own Text Editor
  7. …)(*args, **kwargs) I used this in a demonstration terminal nibbles/worms video game clone, https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/worms.py#L...
    comment by jquast · 2017-02-18 · in Yoda Conditions