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It's an in memory VTXXX-compatible terminal emulator.
XXX stands for a series of 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.
So, why would one need a terminal emulator library?
- To screen scrape terminal apps, for example
htop
oraptitude
. - 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 pure Python implementation of VT100 terminal.
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
.
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 and of course
vt102.