zen_tui is a Text User Interface (TUI) widget library for Python3. It is known to work with CPython3 and Pycopy (Unix version is officially supported for the latter), but should work with any Python3 implementation which allows to access stdin/stdout file descriptors.
It was forked from Picotui on 2024-0401 and heavily modified.
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Zen_tui is an experimental WIP project, and the best documentation currently is the source code (https://github.com/iva2k/py_zen_tui/tree/master/zen_tui) and examples (see below).
- example_widgets.py - Shows repertoire of widgets, inside a dialog.
- example_menu.py - Shows a "fullscreen" application with a main menu.
- example_dialogs.py - Shows some standard dialogs.
- examples/ - More assorted examples.
Pay attention to what Unicode font you use in your console. Some Linux distributions, e.g. Ubuntu, are known to have a broken Unicode font installed by default, which causes various visual artifacts (specifically, Ubuntu Mono font isn't really monospace - many Unicode pseudographic characters have double (or so) width, box-drawing symbols have gaps, etc.)