Created by: peterbrittain
I believe that asciimatics is the terminal API that Python should have always had. It is a more human way to program curses and also provides a drop-in replacement API for non-curses environments - all of which can be pip installed.
In more details, it provides a single, cross-platform API for all terminals/consoles with the following features:
- Coloured/styled text - including 256 colours (terminal support permitting)
- Cursor positioning
- Keyboard input (without blocking or echoing)
- Mouse input (terminal support permitting)
- Detecting and handling when the console resizes
- Screen scraping
- Anti-aliased ASCII line-drawing
- Image to ASCII conversion - including JPEG and GIF formats
- Many animation effects - e.g. sprites, particle systems, banners, etc.
It has been proven to work on Windows, Linux and OSX and supports Python versions 2 and 3.
For an idea of the sorts of things it can do, see the gallery.
It wasn't obvious to me whether this should be in the command-line tools or GUI section given that it straddles both. I'd happily be guided by your views if you feel it is worth taking.