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Prompt Toolkit

Python Prompt Toolkit is a library for building powerful interactive command line and terminal applications in Python.

Installation ⚑

pip install prompt_toolkit

Usage⚑

A simple prompt ⚑

The following snippet is the most simple example, it uses the prompt() function to asks the user for input and returns the text. Just like (raw_)input.

from prompt_toolkit import prompt

text = prompt('Give me some input: ')
print('You said: %s' % text)

It can be used to build REPL applications or full screen ones.