You need to see this front-end Python package

Manpreet Singh
3 min readOct 5, 2021

Welcome back! Python is an awesome programming language with a ton of capability, i’m sure you all know this by now, so if you’re a GUI developer you maybe bored of the options available (probably not, but roll with me here 😂), guess what? There is actually an awesome front-end package with a twist, this specific package is called textual, you can check it out below:

So, what’s different about textual? Well, this specific framework is actually a TUI, that stands for Text-User-Interface, I was confused to when I first saw that, but the below image from their GitHub helped me understand this package:

As you can see, this project actually renders text as a user interface, making it fairly different than other front-end packages for Python. Within their GitHub page there are several examples, check out this page below to see all of the examples they have:

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