reter 1.0.8

A unix/posix terminal manipulation library for python3

Retry Terminal

Reter alternatively Terminal Retry is a pure-python, terminal manipulation library inspired by crossterm a terminal manipulation library for Rust. Reter makes it possible to write text-based interfaces. It supports all UNIX terminals hopefully windows at some point.

Install

Linux/Mac

pip install reter

Features

• Few dependencies
• Full control over writing and flushing output buffer
• Is tty
• Cursor
  • Move the cursor N times (up, down, left, right)
  • Move to previous / next line
  • Move to column
  • Set/get the cursor position
  • Store the cursor position and restore to it later
  • Hide/show the cursor
  • Enable/disable cursor blinking (not all terminals support this feature)
• Styled output
  • Foreground color (16 base colors)
  • Background color (16 base colors)
  • 256 (ANSI) color support
  • RGB/True color support
  • Text attributes like bold, italic, underscore, crossed, etc
• Terminal
  • Clear (all lines, current line, from cursor down and up)
  • Set/get the terminal size
  • Exit current buffer
  • Alternate screen
  • Set terminal title
  • Enable/disable line wrapping
• Event
  • Input Events
  • Terminal Resize Events
  • Advanced key events

Documentation

Sadly there is no documentation as far as the eye can see : ( As of now reter is in a beta state, when the full version releases so will documentation!