https://github.com/selectel/pyte

Simple VTXXX-compatible linux terminal emulator
https://github.com/selectel/pyte

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Simple VTXXX-compatible linux terminal emulator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/selectel/pyte
• Owner: selectel
• License: lgpl-3.0
• Created: 2011-06-21T08:16:28.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-22T09:27:14.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-22T10:53:58.271Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: community, terminal-emulator
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://pyte.readthedocs.org/
• Size: 712 KB
• Stars: 681
• Watchers: 41
• Forks: 107
• Open Issues: 50
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES
  • License: LICENSE
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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What is ``pyte``?

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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`` 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 pure Python implementation of VT100 terminal.

Installation

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If you have `pip `_ you can do the usual::

    pip install pyte

Otherwise, download the source from `GitHub `_

and run::

    python setup.py install

Similar projects

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``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 `_.