[PR #504] [MERGED] Please add asciimatics #18856

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GiteaMirror · 2026-05-12T10:59:41-05:00

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📋 Pull Request Information

Original PR: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/504
Author: @peterbrittain
Created: 11/8/2015
Status: ✅ Merged
Merged: 3/20/2016
Merged by: @vinta

Base: master ← Head: master

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2460af8 Added asciimatics

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📝 README.md (+1 -0)

📄 Description

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.

_{🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.}

## 📋 Pull Request Information **Original PR:** https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/504 **Author:** [@peterbrittain](https://github.com/peterbrittain) **Created:** 11/8/2015 **Status:** ✅ Merged **Merged:** 3/20/2016 **Merged by:** [@vinta](https://github.com/vinta) **Base:** `master` ← **Head:** `master` --- ### 📝 Commits (1) - [`2460af8`](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/commit/2460af85eaae38fad6f78965a16e4b086445016f) Added asciimatics ### 📊 Changes **1 file changed** (+1 additions, -0 deletions) <details> <summary>View changed files</summary> 📝 `README.md` (+1 -0) </details> ### 📄 Description I believe that [asciimatics](https://github.com/peterbrittain/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](https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/wiki). 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. --- <sub>🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.</sub>

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Reference: github-starred/awesome-python#18856