On 2025-01-14, Chris Green via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> Yes, thanks all, maybe just straightforward curses is the way to go. > Looking at some of the 'cleverer' ones they end up looking remarkably > like GUI code, in which case I might as well use a GUI. The source code to configure and handle a UI with a certain set of input widgets is going to be pretty much the same regardless of the low-level screen bashing details involved in rendering the widgets. You choose a TUI toolkit like curses panel/menu/forms instead of a GUI toolkit like gtk because you need your app to run on a terminal instead of on a X11/wayland screen, not because you want your app to be simpler than the code for a GUI app (as you've seen, it isn't). > I have written a (fairly simple) Gtk based python program, I was > just trying to avoid all the GUI overheads for a little new project. If you want to avoid the [TG]UI overhead, then command line options are your friend. If that's not sophisticated enough the gnu "readline" library with a simple command processor is a common next step. Or you can use curses to print some help stuff at the top of the terminal window and then do everything based on single-stroke "command keys" that print output in the lower part of the terminal window. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
