From 35c68984e879a40e0480099c050805b82a5ec1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:55:38 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] audit: sweep CLI Development, mint TUI Frameworks, drop cement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Restructure: textual and asciimatics move from Terminal Rendering to a minted TUI Frameworks subcategory — full-screen terminal UIs are a distinct job from rendering output. urwid joins them in the GUI Development commit, which dissolves that section's Terminal subcategory. Renames to canonical PyPI names: python-prompt-toolkit → prompt_toolkit, python-fire → fire (the PyPI package named python-fire is an unrelated name-squatter; Google's project installs as fire). Tiers: click (1.12B/mo), typer (366M/mo), argparse (stdlib) obvious choices; prompt_toolkit (246.8M/mo), fire (22M/mo) challengers. tqdm (670.1M/mo), rich (626.7M/mo) obvious choices; colorama (425.6M/mo, largely pip-transitive traffic, superseded by rich for new code) demoted to challenger (Second Tier) beside alive-progress (3.7M/mo). textual (535.4M/mo) obvious choice of TUI Frameworks, asciimatics (177.5K/mo) challenger. Removed: - cement — 565K downloads/month but 1.3K stars after 17 years (CI-shaped count); alive yet no longer anyone's unprompted answer against click, typer, fire, or prompt_toolkit. Judgment call. Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6329333d..fd305467 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -772,19 +772,19 @@ _Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software Defined Networking _Libraries for building command-line applications._ - CLI Development - - [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html) - (Python standard library) Command-line option and argument parsing. - - [cement](https://github.com/datafolklabs/cement) - CLI Application Framework for Python. - [click](https://github.com/pallets/click/) - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way. - - [python-fire](https://github.com/google/python-fire) - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object. - - [python-prompt-toolkit](https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit) - A library for building powerful interactive command lines. - [typer](https://github.com/fastapi/typer) - Modern CLI framework that uses Python type hints. Built on Click and Pydantic. + - [argparse](https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html) - (Python standard library) Command-line option and argument parsing. + - [prompt_toolkit](https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit) - A library for building powerful interactive command lines. + - [fire](https://github.com/google/python-fire) - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object. - Terminal Rendering - - [alive-progress](https://github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress) - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations. - - [asciimatics](https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics) - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations). - - [colorama](https://github.com/tartley/colorama) - Cross-platform colored terminal text. - - [rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich) - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great `RichHandler` log handler. - - [textual](https://github.com/Textualize/textual) - A framework for building interactive user interfaces that run in the terminal and the browser. - [tqdm](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm) - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI. + - [rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich) - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great `RichHandler` log handler. + - [colorama](https://github.com/tartley/colorama) - Cross-platform colored terminal text. + - [alive-progress](https://github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress) - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations. +- TUI Frameworks + - [textual](https://github.com/Textualize/textual) - A framework for building interactive user interfaces that run in the terminal and the browser. + - [asciimatics](https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics) - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations). ### CLI Tools