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An Intro to Asciimatics – Another Python TUI Package

An Intro to Asciimatics – Another Python TUI Package

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Mike Driscoll
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Text-based user interfaces (TUIs) have gained significant popularity in recent years. Even Rust has its own library called Ratatui after all. Python has several different TUI packages to choose from. One of those packages is called Asciimatics.

While Asciimatics is not as full-featured and slick as Textual is, you can do quite a bit with Asciimatics. In …

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