Summer Code Jam 2021
Below is the list of approved frameworks that you can use for the code jam. Please take note of what frameworks are available for which platform. Please work with your team to choose a library that everyone can develop on, whether it's cross platform or something you can use WSL or a Virtual Machine for.
Urwid
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux, Mac, other unix-like OS
- Somewhat in-depth tutorial
- Uses widgets in a fairly straight forward design
- Docs include tutorials of both functional and class-based examples
Curses
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux and other unix-like OS
- Part of the standard library
- Extensive how-to guide
- Very basic, more effort to get working/looking good
- To supplement curses the following libraries are approved, although no guarantees are made for stability.
Blessed
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux, Mac, and Windows
- Sits on top of curses to add more pythonic bindings
- Doesn't provide any widgets or layouts
Rich
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux, Mac, and Windows
- Documentation is good and overall is very OOP focused
- Robust with many features and example snippets
- To supplement Rich the following library is approved, although no guarantees are made for stability.
- Textual - a TUI framework using Rich as the render.
It is still under active development, is only available on Mac/Linux, and is not stable yet.
Asciimatics
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux, Mac, and Windows
- Documentation is well structured and straightforward to navigate
Python Prompt Toolkit
- Documentation Link
- Supports: Linux, Mac, and Windows
- Pure Python library
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