tui-utilities 1.0.18

Personal-use console utilities library

TUI Utilities

Personal-use console utilities library providing styled terminal interaction, structured menus, robust input validation, formatting helpers, and Spanish-oriented user experience.

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Purpose

This library is designed for console-based applications that need:

• Clean TUI

• Structured Spanish-language user interaction

• Robust validation

• Consistent formatting

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Dependencies

Standard library modules are used where possible; only external dependencies are listed:

• rich

• readchar

• requests

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Features

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Console Utilities (console)

Styled terminal interaction built on rich:

• print(): styled print function built on rich, supporting text styles, alignment, padding, and per-segment styling.

• input(): styled input function built on rich, supporting text styles and automatically trimming whitespaces.

• clear_console(): clears the terminal screen (Windows/Linux compatible).

• wait_for_key(): pauses execution until the user presses a key.

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Structure Utilities (structure)

Tools for building structures in console applications:

• menu(): creates interactive selection menus with automatic numbering and special options like "Go back" and "Exit".

• confirm_exit(): confirmation dialog that exits the program safely.

• separator(): prints a styled visual separator line.

• error_message(): displays formatted error information including:

  • Custom message

  • Exception details

  • Full traceback

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Input Validation (validation)

Interactive validation utilities for user input.

• check_if_empty(): checks if a list is empty and displays an error screen.

• validate_string(): ensures non-empty string input.

• validate_integer(): validates integers (uses Continental European numeric format).

• validate_double(): validates decimal numbers (uses Continental European numeric format).

• validate_date(): validates date and time input (uses Day–Month–Year date format with 24-hour time).

• validate_id(): validates Argentinian national ID numbers.

• validate_cellphone_number(): validates cellphone numbers (uses Argentinian format).

• validate_email(): validates e-mail addresses using an official TLDs list (from IANA's website) or syntax fallback (in case of not having an internet connection or a locally imported list of TLDs).

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Formatting Helpers (format)

Utilities for applying consistent formatting:

• decimal_format(): applies Continental European numeric formatting.

• id_format(): formats Argentinian national ID numbers.

• cellphone_number_format(): formats cellphone numbers (uses Argentinian format).

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Installation

pip install tui_utilities

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Update

pip install -U tui_utilities