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On 1/17/25 12:03, Keith Thompson via Python-list wrote:
> Alan Gauld <learn2program@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 15/01/2025 00:41, Keith Thompson via Python-list wrote:
>>> Alan Gauld <learn2program@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On 11/01/2025 14:28, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:
>>>>> I'm looking for Python packages that can help with text mode input,
I haven't followed this whole thread, but rich (low-level) and textual 
(higher-level) are designed for this - part of the same project family - 
and really worth a look. I know someone else mentioned rich earlier.

There's a little video on the textual homepage that shows some of what 
it can do in action:

https://github.com/Textualize/textual