termpixels 0.0.4

Terminal I/O with a pixel-like abstraction

# termpixels
*the terminal as a character-cell matrix*

## Purpose
Creating programs that run inside of terminals seems convoluted. The goal of termpixels is to abstract the terminal into a 2D array of "pixels", or character cells, which each contain a single text character, a foreground color, and a background color. termpixels allows you to modify the screen contents anywhere, at any time, and then handles updating the terminal automatically.

## Limitations
There are lots of great libraries for coloring terminal output. This one is designed for full-screen applications that completely control the contents of the screen. That means that it automatically saves and clears the screen, resets the cursor position, and accepts input in cbreak mode.

## Features
* Unix terminal feature detection with terminfo (via Python [curses][python-curses])
* Windows support through Win32 Console API
* Terminal (re)size detection
* Asynchronous input
* Keyboard input with support for special keys like arrows, function keys, escape, etc.
* Mouse click and move input in terminals supporting xterm mouse
* 16, 256, and true color output (with detection for best supported mode)
* No reliance on ncurses except for terminfo lookup
* 100% Python
* and more

## Get it
This project is on [PyPI][pypi].

Alternatively, just `pip install -e .` in the root directory.

## Inspiration
* [tcell][tcell]
* [ncurses][ncurses]

[python-curses]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/curses.html
[tcell]: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
[ncurses]: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
[pypi]: https://pypi.org/project/termpixels/