Bullet
Dev tools
command line prompts
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks nice and useful for simple CLI scripts
From 3 comments
I like this a lot. Will definitely try it out at some point.
mr_cyborg on HNThis is awesome, I've been using Pick, but this looks a lot nicer!
alex_g on HNI can think of a lot of simple scripts that I could easily plug this into. When I’m writing a little script to do something for me, the last thing I want to do is write any sort…
fermentation on HN
Objections
Does not work on Windows because termios is unavailable
From 2 comments
termios issue. I installed this via pip in python 3.7 under windows 10 and got an error about the termios package not being available. But trying to install termios via pip…
slurryer on HNThe readme only claims to support Linux. termios is a built-in package, but not for Windows. https://docs.python.org/3/library/termios.html
rcfox on HN
Calling it beautiful is a marketing claim
From 2 comments
If there's one trend I can't stand it's developers claiming that their own projects are "beautiful".
black-tea on HNi'd say "beautiful" in this context is shorthand for "built with attention towards aesthetics", which is often not the case for programmer tools like this
uryga on HN
Unclear real use cases beyond a toy project
From 1 comment
What are the use cases? This looks like a fun project without any real applications. A react component makes sense because it hooks into an existing ecosystem but how would…
whalesalad on HN
Requests
Add more widgets such as checkboxes and forms
From 1 comment
Looks cool. I'd like to see more widgets though, like a checkbox or simple form widget. One package just for a radio list is too much like the npm way of doing things.
Evidlo on HN
Support choose-many questions and chaining prompts
From 2 comments
This is really nice. I'm working on a similar project right now, trying to hook together a few console UI pieces like this into a coherent annotation tool:…
lars512 on HNThanks for the feedback! Will definitely add more features to this package. Wrapping up several prompts together is a great idea too, thanks for the insight.
Mckinsey666 on HN
Support greyed-out deactivated choices and validation
From 1 comment
First thoughts were that this was handled by Prompt Toolkit, but it's actually a slightly different case to the auto complete which that one offers:…
nmstoker on HN
Questions
Is the project still maintained, as with pythondialog?
From 1 comment
seems like this isn't maintained?
mlevental on HN
Alternatives named
Python Dialog, Prompt Toolkit, Gooey, pick, cutie, questioner, quick
From 7 comments
if you want to use python together with dialog to build cli menus, i recommend using http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/doc/. i've been using it for a project at work and it's…
1f97 on HNFirst thoughts were that this was handled by Prompt Toolkit, but it's actually a slightly different case to the auto complete which that one offers:…
nmstoker on HNWell there is Gooey, FWIW: https://pypi.org/project/Gooey/
BerislavLopac on HNI've previously built a similar package, much simpler: https://github.com/wong2/pick
wonderfuly on HNThere is similar project https://github.com/Kamik423/cutie for someone who is interested in cli dialogs.
spark888 on HNThis is really nice. I'm working on a similar project right now, trying to hook together a few console UI pieces like this into a coherent annotation tool:…
lars512 on HNPossibly https://github.com/szsdk/quick ?
sikhnerd on HN