Manyterm

Spawn multiple terminals to print to (or get input from).
Or share terminals between python programs.
Compatible with Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Installation

pip install manyterm or pip3 install manyterm

Usage

import manyterm 

t1 = manyterm.Terminal() # make a new window

t1.print("Hello World") # print to the window

t1.print("supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", end="") # default end="\n"

t1.close() # close the window

To use a shared terminal, see demos/shared.py

Description

There are two types of terminals that can be made:

1. One to Many manyterm.Terminal():

• New terminals can printed to or be asked for input.
• tests/print.py is an example of how to use printing.
• tests/input.py is an example of how to use input.

2. Many to One manyterm.SharedTerminal():

• Create a "shared" terminal that can be accessed from many independent python programs.
• Run several instances of tests/shared.py concurrently to share one terminal.
• Each instance will connect to the terminal based on the uid.
• Then run tests/close_shared.py to close the terminal.

Notes:

• Terminals are probably not thread safe.
• No errors will be thrown if trying to print to a closed terminal, however you can check the boolean return of print to see if it was successful.
• The title of the window can be changed in Linux with the title parameter.
• The size of the window can be changed in Linux and Windows with the cols and rows parameter, unit is characters.
• On Linux the terminal can be changed with the terminal parameter, manyterm supports gnome, kde / konsole, kitty, and alacritty.

How it works:

A server is used to print to client windows based on a uuid. When a new window object is made manyterm.Terminal() the program checks to make sure that the server is running, assigns itself a uuid, and then the program calls itself from a new terminal using the uuid as an argument. The new program contacts the server with its' uuid and the connection is made. For "Many to One" the window becomes the server and the user program becomes the client.

Windows 11

Linux (Mint 22.1)

MacOS Sonoma