terminal_animation

A simple package to make beautiful terminal wait animations

Install

pip install terminal-animation

How to use

import animation
import time

# 1 use as class
wait_animation = animation.Wait()
wait_animation.start()
do_something()
wait_animation.end()

#2 use as decorator
@animation.wait()
def do_something_else():
    # long function
    time.sleep(5)

Customization

The package uses a default animation with dots. It allows users to customize the the animation with different parameters.

The default settings are:

color: white
speed: 0.2
animation = ['    ','.   ','..  ','... ','....']

Color

The color of the characters. Available options are:

• black ...
• red ...
• green ...
• yellow ...
• blue ...
• magenta ...
• cyan ...
• white ...

Speed

The speed between, the animation states.

0 < speed < 1

Animation

To use a custom animation, you have to pass a string array containing the seperate steps of the animation. For example, a simple clock animation would look like this

clock = ['-','\\','|','/']

@animation.wait(clock)
def do_something():
    # long function

Examples

# default animation (white, dots, default speed)
@animation.wait()
def default():
    time.sleep(10)

# clock animation (white, default speed)
clock = ['-','\\','|','/']

@animation.wait(clock)
def do_something():
    time.sleep(10)


# horizontal line animation (blue, default speed)
lines = ['   ','-  ','-- ','---']

@animation.wait(lines, color="blue")
def do_something_else():
    time.sleep(10)


# hashtag animation (cyan, slow)
tags = ["#   ", "##  ", "### ", "####"]

animation = animations.Wait(tags, color="blue", speed=0.5)
animation.start()
time.sleep(4)
animation.stop()