The development team tells us:
Npyscreen is a python widget library and application framework for programming terminal or console applications.
The development of this python module is similar to the PyQt python module.
The npyscreen comes with many widgets and easy development.
The GitHub repo for this python module comes with many examples.
The documentation of this python module can be found at this
[mythcat@desk ~]$ pip3 install npyscreen --user
Collecting npyscreen
...
Installing collected packages: npyscreen
Successfully installed npyscreen-4.10.5
Let's see one simple example:#!/usr/bin/env python3
import npyscreen
class ProductForm(npyscreen.Form):
def create(self):
self.product_name = self.add(npyscreen.TitleText, name='Name')
self.category = self.add(npyscreen.TitleSelectOne, scroll_exit=True,\
max_height=3, name='Category', values = ['Products 1', 'Products 2', 'Products 3'])
self.myDate = self.add(npyscreen.TitleDateCombo, name='Date stocking')
class MyTest(npyscreen.NPSAppManaged):
def onStart(self):
self.addForm('MAIN', ProductForm, name='New product')
if __name__ == '__main__':
TestApp = MyTest().run()
The result of this python script can be seen on the next image.