Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Environment
- Console
Intended Audience
- Developers
Operating System
- OS Independent
License
- OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3)
Programming Language
- Python :: 3.8
- Python :: 3.9
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
- Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Topic
- Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
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What is pyte?
It’s an in memory VTXXX-compatible terminal emulator. XXX stands for a series of video terminals, developed by DEC between 1970 and 1995. The first, and probably the most famous one, was VT100 terminal, which is now a de-facto standard for all virtual terminal emulators. pyte follows the suit.
So, why would one need a terminal emulator library?
To screen scrape terminal apps, for example htop or aptitude.
To write cross platform terminal emulators; either with a graphical (xterm, rxvt) or a web interface, like AjaxTerm.
To have fun, hacking on the ancient, poorly documented technologies.
Note: pyte started as a fork of vt102, which is an incomplete pure Python implementation of VT100 terminal.
Installation
If you have pip you can do the usual:
pip install pyte
Otherwise, download the source from GitHub and run:
python setup.py install
Similar projects
pyte is not alone in the weird world of terminal emulator libraries, here’s a few other options worth checking out: Termemulator, pyqonsole, webtty, AjaxTerm and of course vt102.
Wheel compatibility matrix
Files in release
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