erikrose/blessings

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

Adoption not part of the score

1485 stars · 151 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Blessings is a thin Python library that wraps terminal capabilities for coloring, styling, and cursor positioning without the complexity of curses. It provides a simple Terminal object that handles tty detection and gracefully omits control codes when output is redirected.

Use cases

• print colored and styled text in a python cli
• position text at a specific screen location in the terminal
• format terminal output that survives being piped to a file
• replace verbose curses tigetstr/tparm calls with clean python
• build a well-behaved command-line app that preserves scrollback

When to choose

• you need simple terminal styling or cursor positioning in Python without full-screen control
• you want output that degrades gracefully when redirected to files or pipes
• you find curses too low-level for basic color and formatting tasks

When to avoid

• you need full-screen terminal UIs with panels and event loops (use urwid or textual)
• you are starting a new project and can use the maintained Blessings fork (blessed)
• you need terminal control in a language other than Python

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

developer-tools cli terminal-ui developer-tools python cli cross-platform terminal-formatting ansi-colors curses-wrapper tty command-line

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="erikrose/blessings")