wuy 0.9.22

A simple module for making HTML GUI applications with python3/asyncio

wuy

If you have made a super python tool, and you want to add a GUI but without using qt/gtk/tk/wx/kivy/toga : you are in the right place ! Just re-use the local browser (chrome in app mode) as GUI, drived by wuy.

html / python

Basically, it's a python module which will act as a web server (http & websocket) and will open/manage a window for you ; providing a simple framework (js/py3 helpers).

It lets you create your GUI with yours web skills (html/js/css or any js frameworks/libs), and re-use the power of python on server side.

Technically, it's a python3 module, using asyncio and the marvellous aiohttp, and (if present) the uvloop, for the full speed ! The http server is here to serve static content (html, js, images ...). The websocket is here to simplify the communication (sync/async) between the window & the server. (rpc method to communicate from client to server, pubsub mechanism to communicate from server to clients, or from client to clients)

In app/window mode : it will manage (open/close) the window for you ; using the chrome app mode ; if the websocket brokes : window & server will shutdown (close the window ; the server will shutdown, close the server ; the window will shutdown). You (or your clients) will not see a difference with classical GUI !

In server mode : it will act as a classical web server ; and you can use as many clients/browsers as you want, from localhost or from anywhere else. Closing a socket ; just close the socket ;-). It can be hosted on the web, as long as the provider service use python3.

More on window/server differences

In all cases : it will be pretty easy to produce/freeze an executable (windows/linux/apple) (one file with all html/js embedded), using pyinstaller/windows. And share your super python tool to the world (wuy comes with its own freezer (a wuy app !))! And in the future : android !

Since 0.6; wuy provide a js method to proxify http requests, to avoid CORS troubles.

Since 0.9; wuy provide get/set methods on client/server side to store/retrieve key/value pairs in a json file on serverside.

It's, a little bit, the same thing as python eel.

TODOs:

• In the future : cefpython3 will be the platform of choice for running wuy apps on android/iphone (when cef and cefpython3 will be ready). Currently wuy works with cefpython3, on linux/windows/apple. It's working in the unittests suite (you can already try ; modify wuy.py, replace ChromeApp() by ChromeAppCef())
• Write docs & examples

The simplest example

This is the hello world of wuy

import wuy

class helloWorld(wuy.Window):
    """ <button onclick="wuy.beep()">BEEP</button> """
    size=(100,100)

    def beep(self):
        print("\a BEEP !!!")

helloWorld()

To Test/Run

Download the zip from here

$ pip3 install aiohttp winreg
$ python3 -u an_app.py

(winreg is needed for windows only)

It's an app !

For a regular server example (many clients from anywhere on web)

$ python3 -u a_server.py

To Use

Install the lib :

$ pip3 install wuy winreg

(winreg is needed for windows only)

And follow the official tuto.

See Examples

• an_app : all kind of tricks
• an_app2 : an input box
• an_app3 : an alert box with autodeclared js vars (chain'able windows)!
• an_app4 : using sync & async rpc calls !
• an_app5 : using async aiohttp.get (request content from web) & FULLSCREEN mode
• an_app6 : progress bars (async)
• an_app7 : html is inside the docstring ! (SIMPLEST)
• an_app8 : just to show how to organize your code when app's expand.
• an_appVuejs : using a vuejs app (and a continuous push from server to client)
• a_server : a server, tchat service for multiple clients

Don't forget to have a look at real examples too (real apps for real life)

A big real life app : See jBrout3 (in development), it's the rebirth of the good old py2/gtk app : jBrout2. It use vuejs/vuex for front, and the jbrout's lib to manage photos.

Doc

Use wuy.Window for app (which open/manage a chrome window app)

Use wuy.Server for classic http/ws servers

And client side (javascript), in all cases : use wuy.js

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