Bug#1121904: ITP: python-asciimatics -- Python cross platform package to do curses-like operations

Package: wnpp

Severity: wishlist

Owner: Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi <modaresisofthard@proton.me>

X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name : python-asciimatics

* Version : 1.15.0-1

* URL : https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

* License : Apache-2.0

Description : python-asciimatics -- Python cross platform package to do curses-like operations

python3-asciimatics -- Python cross platform package to do curses-like operations

ASCIIMATICS

Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations) on any platform. It is licensed under the Apache Software Foundation License 2.0.

Why?

Why not? It brings a little joy to anyone who was programming in the 80s... Oh and it provides a single cross-platform Python class to do all the low-level console function you could ask for, including:

Coloured/styled text - including 256 colour terminals and unicode characters (even CJK languages)
Cursor positioning
Keyboard input (without blocking or echoing) including unicode support
Mouse input (terminal permitting)
Detecting and handling when the console resizes
Screen scraping

In addition, it provides some simple, high-level APIs to provide more complex features including:

Anti-aliased ASCII line-drawing
Image to ASCII conversion - including JPEG and GIF formats
Many animation effects - e.g. sprites, particle systems, banners, etc.
Various widgets for text UIs - e.g. buttons, text boxes, radio buttons, etc.

Currently this package has been proven to work on CentOS 6 & 7, Raspbian (i.e. Debian wheezy), Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7, 8 & 10, OSX 10.11 and Android Marshmallow (courtesy of https://termux.com), though it should also work for any other platform that provides a working curses implementation.

It should be implementation agnostic and has been successfully tested on CPython and PyPy2.

(Please let me know if you successfully verified it on other platforms so that I can update this list).