prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
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Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
30 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 3 stories, 27 comments · first 2014-09-30 · latest 2025-02-09
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…TERM in favor of hard-coding escape sequences. Guilty packages include: * ipython/prompt_toolkit ( https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit ), * chalk ( https://github.com/chalk/chalk ), * linenose (…
comment by quotemstr · 2025-02-09 · in Some terminal frustrations -
…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/
comment by doix · 2023-02-21 · in Show HN: Replbuilder, quickly build a Python REPL CLI prompt -
…instead of visual select): https://gist.github.com/fratajczak/64e32421a43d3b8194d0409ce... [1]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob...
comment by fratajcz · 2022-11-16 · in Why is the terminal input so weird? -
Take a look at prompt_toolkit which is a Python library used by IPython among others: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by adambyrtek · 2022-01-15 · in Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal -
…which also handles keyboard and mouse input and can be used to implement editors[2]. [1] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit [2] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/pyvim
comment by jdnier · 2021-02-16 · in Building Rich Terminal Dashboards -
Check out https://github.com/rivo/tview (golang), https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit (python) and https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs (rust). Personally I went with prompt toolkit for a work project I had to do in python…
comment by djeiasbsbo · 2020-11-24 · in Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core -
If you know python, there is a package called prompt-toolkit which does what you are looking for https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by animal_spirits · 2020-10-26 · in Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui -
…go-prompt[0] which is based on python-prompt-toolkit[1] [0] https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt [1] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by seedie · 2020-10-12 · in Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go -
…https://bpython-interpreter.org/ [4] https://github.com/inducer/pudb [5] https://zeitzono.org/ [6] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit [7] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
comment by njt · 2020-09-09 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)? -
…toolkit [0] and click [1] are used to create tools like pgcli [2], which is utterly wonderful. [0]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit [1]: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/ [2]: https://www.pgcli.com/
comment by aeontech · 2020-09-08 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)? -
…[0]: https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt [1]: https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt [2]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by Seirdy · 2019-12-01 · in HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client -
…IPython like widgets. The %autoreload magic has been improved as well[2]. Great release overall! 1. https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit 2. https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version7.h...
comment by orf · 2018-09-27 · in IPython 7.0 Released -
…shell to do something in AWS. [0] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell [1] https://www.dbcli.co [2] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by neuland · 2018-03-16 · in Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI -
I think this is quite popular: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit For Rust this library seems nice: https://github.com/kbknapp/clap-rs (it generates autocompletion scripts for shells)
comment by oblio · 2018-03-16 · in Google Cloud Platform’s new interactive CLI -
Thanks Jonathan Slenders for the solid library backing these: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit See also: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython , https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pymux ,…
comment by git-pull · 2017-12-23 · in DBCLI – Modern Suite of Database CLIs -
…native code and static binaries and overall lends a simpler packaging and distribution experience. https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by Cieplak · 2017-08-22 · in Building Reactive Terminal Interfaces in C++ -
Thinking about it now, I think we could get 90% of the way there just using python-prompt-toolkit. https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by Cieplak · 2017-05-26 · in Coroutines are now in Clang trunk, libc++ -
Python prompt toolkit is worth a look https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/bl...
comment by d0mine · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience? -
…[1]: https://github.com/scopatz/xonsh/pull/829 [2]: https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome [3]: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by donnemartin · 2016-05-11 · in The xonsh shell -
The autocompleter feature looks neat, it's built on top of python-prompt-toolkit [0]. [0] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by daw___ · 2016-04-18 · in Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor -
I'm not sure if this particular tool makes use of it but saws uses the python-prompt-toolkit - https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit
comment by NachoDuck · 2015-12-28 · in AWS Shell – An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI -
…gifs. More generally, build your own tools like this with the excellent Python Prompt Toolkit! ( https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit )
comment by thomasballinger · 2015-09-27 · in Autocomplete as an interface -
The tool looks fantastic. Well done! I like how prompt_toolkit ( https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit ) is inspiring a lot of these user friendly command line tools.
comment by amjith · 2015-09-21 · in Show HN: SAWS: A Supercharged AWS CLI -
…) is also a pretty slick vim clone in python that uses the python prompt toolkit ( https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit )
comment by synparb · 2015-09-02 · in Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch -
…scores into large spreadsheets and I want to replace that with sqlite. And thanks for this one: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/tr...
comment by leni536 · 2015-07-30 · in Show HN: Mycli – A CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting -
…(core library) which is the basis for pyvim (same author), is well structured and modular. https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit There are plenty of examples in the repo that cover most of the features in the library.…
comment by amjith · 2015-04-26 · in Pure Python Vim clone -
…and syntax highlighting. There is a proof of concept of what the integration could look like: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/bl... But in the end it would be nice to have this as a part of IPython itself.
comment by jonathan_s · 2014-09-30 · in Python REPL with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and multiline editing