Mike    Textual v . . was released today, and it included the brand new MaskedInput widget. If you have used other GUI toolkits, such as wxPython, you might already be familiar with a masked input widget. These widgets allow you to control the user’s input based on a mask string that the developer...

Mike    My Kickstarter for my latest Python book is still going on for another eight days. Now is a great time to pre order the book as well as get my other Python books. The project is fully funded, and I added a stretch goal. Stretch Goal The stretch goal is or backers. If we reach The post...

Mike    The Python programming language has thousands of wonderful third party packages available on the Python Package Index. One of those packages is TerminalTextEffects TTE , a terminal visual effects engine. Here are the features that TerminalTextEffects provides, according to their documentation...

Mike    My latest Python book is now available for pre order on Kickstarter. JupyterLab, the latest iteration of the Jupyter Notebook, is a versatile tool for sharing code in an easily understandable format. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Jupyter Notebooks or variations of the...

Mike    Have you ever wanted to create a plot or graph in your terminal Okay, maybe you haven’t, but now that you know you can, you want to Python has the plotext package for plotting in your terminal. However, while that package is amazing all on its own, there is another package called textual plotext...

Mike    The Textual package is a great way to create GUI like applications with Python in your terminal. These are known as text based user interfaces or TUIs. Textual has many different widgets built in to the framework. One of those widgets is the ProgressBar. If you need to show the progress of a...

Mike    Have you ever needed a progress bar in your Python command line application One great way of creating a progress bar is to use the alive progress package created by Rogério Sampaio de Almeida Alive progress provides multiple different types of progress bars in your terminal or IPython REPL...

Mike    Have you ever wanted to show a pandas DataFrame in your terminal Of course, you have All you need is the textual pandas package Yes, you can also view a pandas DataFrame in a REPL, such as IPython or Jupyter Notebook, but you can write a TUI application with textual pandas and use that to...

Mike    ObjectListView is a third party wxPython widget that wraps the wx.ListCtrl. I have used it for over years in quite a few different GUI applications because it works much nicer than wx.ListCtrl does. Unfortunately, ObjectListView was never integrated into wxPython core like some other amazing...

Mike    A newer Python package called Rich Pixels allows you to create images in your terminal and display them. Darren Burns, one of the team members from the Textual project, created this package. Anyway, let’s find out how to use Rich Pixels Installation You can install Rich Pixels using Python’s pip...