Pick an option in the terminal with a simple GUI
Project description
pick
pick is a small python library to help you create curses based interactive selection list in the terminal.
Basic | Multiselect |
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Installation
$ pip install pick
Usage
pick comes with a simple api:
>>> from pick import pick
>>> title = 'Please choose your favorite programming language: '
>>> options = ['Java', 'JavaScript', 'Python', 'PHP', 'C++', 'Erlang', 'Haskell']
>>> option, index = pick(options, title)
>>> print(option)
>>> print(index)
outputs:
>>> C++
>>> 4
pick multiselect example:
>>> from pick import pick
>>> title = 'Please choose your favorite programming language (press SPACE to mark, ENTER to continue): '
>>> options = ['Java', 'JavaScript', 'Python', 'PHP', 'C++', 'Erlang', 'Haskell']
>>> selected = pick(options, title, multiselect=True, min_selection_count=1)
>>> print(selected)
outputs:
>>> [('Java', 0), ('C++', 4)]
Options
options
: a list of options to choose fromtitle
: (optional) a title above options listindicator
: (optional) custom the selection indicator, defaults to*
default_index
: (optional) set this if the default selected option is not the first onemultiselect
: (optional), if set to True its possible to select multiple items by hitting SPACEmin_selection_count
: (optional) for multi select feature to dictate a minimum of selected items before continuingscreen
: (optional), if you are usingpick
within an existing curses application set this to your existingscreen
object. It is assumed this has initialised in the standard way (e.g. viacurses.wrapper()
, orcurses.noecho(); curses.cbreak(); screen.kepad(True)
)position
: (optional), if you are usingpick
within an existing curses application use this to set the first position to write to. e.g.,position=pick.Position(y=1, x=1)
quit_keys
: (optional), if you want to quit early, you can pass a key codes. If the corresponding key are pressed, it will quit the menu.
Community Projects
pickpack: A fork of pick
to select tree data.
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