pyte 0.4.1

About

What is pyte? It’s an in memory VTXXX-compatible terminal emulator. XXX stands for a series 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 setuptools you can use easy_install -U pyte. Otherwise, you can download the source from GitHub and run python setup.py install.

Example

>>> import pyte
>>> screen = pyte.Screen(80, 24)
>>> stream = pyte.Stream()
>>> stream.attach(screen)
>>> stream.feed("Hello World!")
>>> screen.display
    ['Hello World!                                                                    ',
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Alternatives

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.