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Quick start
import xnano
from xnano.context import Context
from xnano.expressions import ParentWidth, TimeElapsed, Width
with xnano.open(width=40, height=5) as terminal:
terminal.write('Hello, world!', x='center', border='rounded')
ball = terminal.write('●', y=4)
ball.x = (ParentWidth - Width) * (TimeElapsed % 2 / 2) # a formula, evaluated every frame
@terminal.on_key('space')
def toggle(context: Context) -> None:
if terminal.time.is_paused:
terminal.time.resume()
else:
terminal.time.pause()
terminal.run(quit_on='q')
xnano.open() gives you a terminal. You write text, widgets, images and pixels to it, and every
position and size can be a number, a word such as 'center', or a formula of time or of the
terminal's size. Decorators named for what happens (on_key, on_click, every, after)
react, terminal.input tells a game which keys are held, terminal.scene() gives pixel-art
worlds a camera and collision, and terminal.play('C4 E4 G4:2') plays a melody written as text.
There are no base classes to subclass and no layout tree to declare.
The examples/ folder has twenty-one runnable programs, from hello world to a
playable pixel-art world, and examples/README.md shows what each one draws.
See it
Run the demo in your terminal with python -m xnano (or the xnano command). It opens with an
animation, then fills the window with live panels that each use a different part of xnano.
Every picture below is a real terminal window running one of the programs in
examples/, photographed by make readme-images, so each picture and its
source stay in step.
A playable world
A pixel-art character, a camera that follows it, collision and a clock you can stop: about
one screen of code (20_world.py).
Pixel art that fits the window
Give an image a percentage and it refits whenever the window is resized, keeping its hard pixel
edges; give it a number and it is locked. The thumbnail in the corner is locked
(24_dusk.py). The art is "Mountain at Dusk" by Luis Zuno (ansimuz), CC0.
Pixel art written as text
from_art turns a block of characters and a short palette into an image
(23_sprites.py).
Images and animations
Pan and zoom over a large picture with the arrow keys and + / -
(06_images.py).
Sound
Every built-in instrument, playable from the keyboard (10_audio.py),
and a whole song written as text, played on the beat (22_song.py).
Widgets
Charts, tables and gauges refreshed from a timer (14_dashboard.py).
Install
Install xnano with pip or uv. Sound and images are extras, so a program that needs neither
installs neither:
pip install xnano # the terminal, widgets, effects and events
pip install "xnano[audio]" # adds notes, melodies, sounds and the microphone
pip install "xnano[image]" # adds images and animations
pip install "xnano[audio,image]"
# or
uv add "xnano[audio,image]"
Using sound or images without their extra raises an ImportError that names the extra to
install. On Linux, audio device playback requires ALSA; synthesis and melody scheduling work
without an audio device.
Packages
The repository is a uv workspace with three installable backends and a small xnano
metapackage that holds the terminal API. The backends can also be installed on their own.
| Distribution | Import | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
xnano |
xnano |
The terminal API: open, placements, hooks, input, pixels, scenes and sound. |
xnano-core |
xnano_core |
The Rust-backed engine: buffers, widgets, layout, state, input, runtime and effects. |
xnano-audio |
xnano_audio |
Audio synthesis, playback, capture and beat-based melodies. |
xnano-image |
xnano_image |
Image and animation decoding, processing and terminal-cell conversion. |
Names live in modules named for what they hold, so the top-level xnano stays small:
xnano.widgets, xnano.expressions, xnano.effects, xnano.operations, xnano.styles,
xnano.events, xnano.geometry, xnano.buffers, xnano.scene, xnano.types and
xnano.errors, plus the optional xnano.audio and xnano.image.
xnano v1
xnano v1 (the declarative grid-and-field API) is not part of this branch. It is maintained on
the v1 branch, and the latest release is
v1.2.3
(PyPI):
pip install "xnano>=1.2.3,<2"
The v1 guides are kept in docs/v1, and their code imports from xnano, as v1
did. A program written for v1 must be rewritten for v2.
Development
The repository uses a uv workspace and Rust workspace. From the repository root, uv sync --all-extras
installs the development environment and make help lists common build, test, lint, type-check,
docs and release commands. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a change.
License
xnano is released under the MIT License.
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