pyte For Linux

pyte is 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.

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 implementation of VT100 features.

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.

 >>> import pyte  >>> screen = pyte.Screen(80, 24)  >>> stream = pyte.Stream()  >>> stream.attach(screen)  >>> stream.feed(u"\u001b7\u001b[?47h\u001b)0\u001b[H\u001b[2J\u001b[H"  u"\u001b[2;1HNetHack, Copyright 1985-2003\r\u001b[3;1"  u"H By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. "  u"Stephenson.\r\u001b[4;1H See license for de"  u"tails.\r\u001b[5;1H\u001b[6;1H\u001b[7;1HShall I pi"  u"ck a character's race, role, gender and alignment f"  u"or you? [ynq] ")  >>> screen.display  [' ',  'NetHack, Copyright 1985-2003 ',  ' By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson. ',  ' See license for details. ',  ' ',  ' ',  "Shall I pick a character's race, role, gender and alignment for you? [ynq] ",  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ',  ' ']  >>>

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