Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python is Released

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Learn how to create text-based user interfaces (TUIs) using Python and the amazing Textual package. Textual is a rapid application development framework for your terminal or web browser. You can build complex, sophisticated applications in your terminal. While terminal applications are text-based rather than pixel-based, they still provide fantastic user interfaces. The Textual package allows […]

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Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python Kickstarter Launched

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Text-based user interfaces (TUIs) are making a BIG comeback. Many developers of today need to easy-to-use applications to configure and run jobs on headless servers. You can make your own life and the lives of your team so much easier by learning how to create a TUI yourself. Textual is a rapid application development framework

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Python 101 – An Intro to Working with INI files Using configparser

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Many programs require configuration. Most have a default configuration and many allow the user to adjust that configuration. There are many different types of configuration files. Some use text files while others use databases. Python has a standard library called configparser that you can use to work with Microsoft Windows INI files. In this tutorial,

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Textual – How to Add Widgets to a Container

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Textual is an excellent Python package for creating beautiful user interfaces in your terminal. By default, Textual will arrange your widgets starting at the top of the screen and appending them in a vertically oriented stack. Each GUI or TUI toolkit provides a way to lay out your widgets. Textual is no different in this

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Textual – Switching Screens in Your Terminal

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The Screen is a container for your widgets. These screens occupy the dimensions of your terminal by default. While you can have many different screens in a single application, only one screen may be active at a time. When you create your App class, Textual will create a screen object implicitly. Yes, Textual requires you to have at

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An Intro to pre-commit

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You can use many great tools to help you in your software development journey. One such tool is pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. You use pre-commit to run one or more tools before allowing you to commit your code locally. For example, you might run the Flake8 linter or the Ruff formatter

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