ConsoleM 0.1.9

A powerful Python library for terminal manipulation and text styling

ConsoleM

A powerful Python library for terminal manipulation and text styling. ConsoleM provides a simple and intuitive API for creating beautiful terminal applications with advanced features like cursor control, text styling, and keyboard input handling.

Features

• Terminal Manipulation

  • Precise cursor movement (absolute and relative positioning)
  • Screen clearing and line management
  • Alternate screen support for full-screen applications
  • Terminal size detection and cursor position tracking
  • Cursor visibility control
  • Non-blocking keyboard input handling

• Text Styling

  • Rich text formatting with intuitive markup syntax
  • 256-color support (foreground and background)
  • Text styles (bold, underline, italic, etc.)
  • Emoji support with automatic conversion
  • Easy-to-use BBCode-like markup syntax
  • Automatic style reset and cleanup

• Input Handling

  • Non-blocking keyboard input capture
  • Key event queue management
  • Special key detection (arrows, function keys, etc.)
  • Thread-safe input processing
  • Clean shutdown handling

Installation

pip install ConsoleM

Quick Start

from ConsoleM import Terminal
from ConsoleM.Style.text import Text

# Create a terminal instance
term = Terminal()

# Print styled text
Text("[blue bold]Welcome to ConsoleM![/]").print()

# Get terminal size
width, height = term.get_terminal_size()
Text(f"[green]Terminal size: {width}x{height}[/]").print()

Documentation

For detailed documentation, visit: https://consolem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.