Argh vs asciimatics

Argh

An argparse wrapper that doesn't make you say "argh" each time you deal with it. (by neithere)

Command-line Tools Command-line Application Development

argh.rtfd.org

asciimatics

A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations (by peterbrittain)

Command-line Tools Command-line Application Development Python Curses Console TUI ascii-art Cross-Platform Terminal

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Scout Monitoring - Free Django app performance insights with Scout Monitoring

Get Scout setup in minutes, and let us sweat the small stuff. A couple lines in settings.py is all you need to start monitoring your apps. Sign up for our free tier today.

www.scoutapm.com

featured

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

www.influxdata.com

featured

Argh		asciimatics
	Project
-	Mentions	17
368	Stars	3,545
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	7.4
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Argh

Posts with mentions or reviews of Argh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Argh yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

asciimatics

Posts with mentions or reviews of asciimatics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

What is your go-to UI framework?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 27 Jun 2023

For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.
How to format output for a stand-alone display screen? Larger numbers, colors, redrawing the screen from the top left instead of printing a new line every time?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 30 May 2023

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.
I'm making a notes app and am up to making an 'edit' feature, but have no way of making changes to a file's contents, let alone saving the changes and writing them to the file
1 project | /r/learnpython | 19 Jan 2023

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics
Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art 🎆🎇
1 project | /r/ProgrammerTIL | 12 Jan 2023

Download fireworks.py
Fireworks-Animated Ascii Art
1 project | /r/programming | 29 Dec 2022

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py
ShyySH: a TUI connection manager for SSH
3 projects | /r/Python | 17 Nov 2022

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.
Best library for TUI (Text User Interface) and CLI (Command line Interface)
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 20 Oct 2022

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.
CLI Tools on windows [Python]
1 project | /r/commandline | 25 Jul 2022

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.
Making ascii “animation” look smoother.
1 project | /r/learnpython | 21 Jul 2022

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid
Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Argh and asciimatics you can also consider the following projects:

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

docopt - Create *beautiful* command-line interfaces with Python

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.

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line

typer - Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen