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peterbrittain
asciimatics
Python2016–2022
peterbrittain / asciimatics

asciimatics

A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations

10Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-05 22:13:02 UTC to 2022-06-27 12:49:02 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Man - this is my fkn brand. Plain text is almost a universal truth -- and it's easy to church up your documentation with a well presented ASCII chart. Some ANSI Color Codes and ASCIInema can carry you a long way. Here's a list of plain text information tools from my notes: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/ https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid/ ascii-tables is exactly what is says on the label. https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ https://github.com/ozh/ascii-tables/ https://www.netpen.io/main/ https://github.com/ebirger/netpen/ svgbob and svg-term are both great for creating SVGs out of these plain text files: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/ https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/ Here are some TUI/CLI focused frameworks. These are over kill for me - but maybe
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In Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
Have you tried ASCIImatics? https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics A project I’m considering would have something similar to the Django admin interface but a TUI with keyboard shortcuts like shift+F9 and I’d like a “pick one and stick with it” recommendation for a TUI toolkit. That said, if a TUI front end for Django admin tasks already exists and I’ve missed it, I’d love to just use that rather than starting from scratch.
In Textual: a Python text user interface with Rich as the renderer

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