tui-utilities 1.9.6

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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Requirements

Dependencies

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

• rich (12.4.4 or higher)
• readchar (4.0.0 or higher)
• requests (2.25.0 or higher)

Python version

Python (3.9 or higher)

Operating System

Any of the following:

• Windows (10 or higher)
• Linux (any modern Linux distribution compatible with Python 3.9)
• MacOS (10.9 or higher)

Google Colaboratory support

This library is fully compatible with Google Colaboratory.

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Features

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

Structure Utilities (structure)

Tools for building structures in console applications:

• header(): prints a styled header, consisting of a title and a separator.
• menu(): creates interactive selection menus with header and automatic selection validation.
• confirmation_menu(): creates a confirmation dialog with custom message and options.
• confirm_exit(): creates a confirmation dialog that exits the program safely (uses confirmation_menu()).
• table(): creates personalized tables with easy introduction of fully-styled columns and rows.
• separator(): prints a fully-personalized visual separator line.
• error_message(): displays formatted error information including:
  • Custom message
  • Exception details
  • Full traceback

Input Validation (validation)

Interactive validation utilities for user input:

• check_if_list_is_empty(): checks if a list is empty and displays an error screen if it is.
• validate_option(): validates user selection from a dictionary of options.
• validate_string(): ensures non-empty string input.
• validate_integer(): validates integers (uses Continental European numeric format) with optional range validation through an advanced syntax (syntax example: "(-infinity; 0] | 5 | [10; infinity)").
• validate_double(): validates decimal numbers (uses Continental European numeric format) with support for fractions and mathematical constants ("pi", "e", "tau", "phi") and optional range validation through an advanced syntax (syntax example: "(-infinity; 0,1] | 1/3 | [pi; infinity)").
• validate_datetime(): validates date and time input (uses Day–Month–Year date format with 24-hour time) with selectable year, time and second inclusion.
• 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).

Formatting Helpers (format)

Utilities for applying consistent formatting:

• decimal_format(): applies Continental European numeric formatting.
• datetime_format(): formats datetime objects (uses Day–Month–Year date format with 24-hour time) with automatic or custom year, time and second inclusion.
• id_format(): formats Argentinian national ID numbers.
• cellphone_number_format(): formats cellphone numbers (uses Argentinian format).

System Utilities (system)

Helpers for interacting with the operating system console environment:

• set_window_title(): sets the console window title.
• maximize_window(): maximizes the console window.
• set_locale(): configures the process locale for number, date, and cultural formatting.
• get_resources_path(): returns the absolute path to the resources directory, regardless of whether the program is running as a script in an IDE or as an executable.

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Installation

pip install tui_utilities

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Update

pip install -U tui_utilities