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prompt_toolkit is a library for building powerful interactive command lines and terminal applications in Python.

prompt_toolkit is a library for building powerful interactive command lines and terminal applications in Python.

You will find the source code and relevant links to documentation, tutorial, examples here: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit

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Customizing keyboard shortcuts in IPython 5

In IPython 5.0, with the new prompt_toolkit backend, how can modify or add new keyboard shortcuts? For example, I want to make it so that up arrow goes back in history, rather than doing a history search (which is the default behavior).
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How does one set specific vim-bindings in Ipython 5.0.0

I understand that because Ipython 5.0.0 uses a new input library (prompt_toolkit) it no longer defaults to the editor mode specified in .inputrc (*nix). This option has to be set in an Ipython profile configuration file (see…
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Prompt_toolkit custom event, like input from non user function

I'm trying to find some documentation about how to add a custom handler, hook etc. to automatically add text, or generally modify the full screen app. I'd want to render a dict received via a named pipe (from another terminal app running in another…
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How to reuse completions from PathCompleter in prompt_toolkit

I am creating a REPL tool for my project that (simplified for clarity) either directly executes entered commands or (if a command ".x some/path/to/file" is entered) reads and executes them from file. My question is related to auto-completing the…
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How do I debug using IDE debugger with the Python Prompt Toolkit

I have been using the Python Prompt Toolkit https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit, but Im having a hard time using it with my IDE. I have to force my IDE to emulate the console as a terminal and it really limits everything I can do…
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prompt-toolkit: Dynamically add and remove buffers to VSplit or HSplit?

is it possible to add and remove buffers? So I want to change a fullscreen layout. For example I want have some layout like this: layout = VSplit([ Window(content=BufferControl(buffer_name=DEFAULT_BUFFER)), Window(width=D.exact(1), …
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tab complete key for __getitem__ in Python class

I'm implementing a python class that contains a 2d numpy array (self.data) that I have set up for column access with a string key. The keys are contained in a dict that maps names to column indices (e.g., self.coldict={'col0':0,...,'colN':N}), and…
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Add a popup dailog in fullscreen app in python prompt_toolkit

I am creating a terminal chat application, where I have a UI with prompt_toolkit. There In message box i added some commands to perform some action. To create the Dashboard I used prompt_toolkit.Application And apply my functionalaty on top of…
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Python Prompt-Toolkit Multiple Completions

I am curious if there is a way to do multiple completions without having a ton of nested dicts. If I look at the example they have completer = NestedCompleter.from_nested_dict( { "show": { "-i": { "a": None, …
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Running ipython from command line - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'prompt_toolkit.formatted_text'

I am trying to run iPython from the command line and get the error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'prompt_toolkit.formatted_text' Because of that I read some posts where it was advised to install specific versions of prompt-toolkit and…
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ipython: change PageDown/PageUp to move back/forward through command history

In my shell (zsh) or in python, I can go backward through command history by pressing PageDown, and I can go forward by pressing PageUp. But in ipython, these shortcuts are reversed. Where are these shortcuts defined for ipython, and how can I…
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Python Prompt Toolkit: How to always open/show autocompleter?

I use prompt_toolkit to ask the user for some input: from prompt_toolkit import prompt from prompt_toolkit.completion import WordCompleter prompt('Input: ', completer=WordCompleter(['abc', 'def', 'xyz'])) Is it possible to show the suggestions…
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display output streams with python's prompt_toolkit

I'm trying to capture output a output stream i.e. dmesg -w with the prompt_toolkit library[0], but I'm unable to find a good entrypoint. Creating an Application() allows you to pass a Layout() which takes Widgets such as Window which in turn take…
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output text while using prompt_toolkit prompt function

I have a small interactive commandline application where i use the prompt function from prompt_toolkit to read user commands. Some commands will open threaded listeners to ports and will print to screen whenever something comes in on the port it is…
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Can't pip install anything EnvironmentError: [Errno 2]

Windows 10 I'm trying to pip install stuff, however since today I can't install anything because I keep getting the following error: Cold not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:…
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