clsp 1.4

CLSP short for Command Line Selection Prompt, is a by fzf inspired, minimalistic, and fast to navigate single choice prompt.

CLSP

CLSP short for Command Line Selection Prompt, is a by fzf inspired, minimalistic, and fast to navigate single choice prompt.

from clsp import select


user_choice = select([1, 2, 3], info="Please pick a number:")

print("You selected:")
print(user_choice)

CLSP is designed to be user-friendly, minimal, and very easy to understand.

Due to it's search function, it supports large lists and spares the end-user unnecessary frustration.

It's especially useful if you'd like the user to choose between files, numbers, country codes, and much more.

Documentation

# CLSP can be easily imported using:
from clsp import select

# You can then show the actual prompt by calling the select function while passing a list type as the positional argument.

user_choice = select(["Choose me!", "Dare to choose me!"])

# You can navigate using the arrow key up and the arrow key down while pressing enter to confirm your selection.

You can provide additional key arguments for further configuration:

Name	Type	Description
title	STR	Information shown above the prompt.
prompt	STR	Text in front of user input.
search	STR	Pre-insert text into the input prompt.
current	INT	Index as the default selection.
rows	INT	Amount of choices at a time.
cutoff	FLOAT	Precision of search. (0 < x < 1).
amount_results	INT	The maximum amount of search results to return.
highlight_color	STR	Highlight color for search (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white).
full_exit	BOOL	Exit completely or pass None on KeyBoardInterrupt or ESC.
ignore_warnings	BOOL	Ignore warnings.

# The function 'select' will return a Selection object which holds following attributes:

print(f"Selected value: {user_choice.value}")
# > "Choose me!" or "Dare to choose me!"

print(f"Index: {user_choice.index}")
# > 0 or 1

if user_choice.search:

	print(f"Search-Query: {user_choice.search}")
	# > For example 'Dare'

	print(f"Search Result: {user_choice.search_result}")
	# > For example ["Dare to chose me!"]