https://github.com/jquast/blessed

cli curses terminal

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Blessed is an easy, practical library for making python terminal apps

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Owner: jquast
License: mit
Fork: true (erikrose/blessings)
Created: 2014-03-01T05:28:51.000Z (over 12 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2026-10-20T14:13:10.000Z (14 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-01T10:48:13.253Z (2 days ago)
Topics: cli, curses, terminal
Language: Python
Homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessed
Size: 15 MB
Stars: 1,512
Watchers: 21
Forks: 87
Open Issues: 3
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rst
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
- License: LICENSE

Owner metadata:

Name: Jeff Quast
Login: jquast
Email: contact@jeffquast.com
Kind: user
Description:
Website: https://jeffquast.com/
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Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/972584?u=c3ca6998b72ccbf4135fff68b31f36da76c52329&v=4
Repositories: 84
Last Synced at: 2026-11-01T22:32:44.094Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/jquast

GitHub Events

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Commit comment event: 1
Create event: 54
Delete event: 43
Fork event: 5
Issue comment event: 118
Issues event: 22
Pull request event: 50
Pull request review comment event: 12
Pull request review event: 23
Push event: 265
Release event: 9
Watch event: 158
Total: 760

Last Year

Create event: 33
Delete event: 25
Issue comment event: 55
Issues event: 13
Pull request event: 19
Pull request review event: 2
Push event: 129
Release event: 7
Watch event: 36
Total: 319

Committers metadata

Last synced: 1 day ago

Total Commits: 856
Total Committers: 31
Avg Commits per committer: 27.613
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.382

Commits in past year: 103
Committers in past year: 5
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 20.6
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.078

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Denis Laxalde	d**e@d**m	12
Thomas Ballinger	t**r@g**m	10
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Vegard Stikbakke	v**e@g**m	1
Yaroslav Halchenko	d**n@o**m	1
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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 1 day ago

Total issues: 71
Total pull requests: 164
Average time to close issues: 6 months
Average time to close pull requests: 13 days
Total issue authors: 52
Total pull request authors: 28
Average comments per issue: 3.38
Average comments per pull request: 2.4
Merged pull request: 119
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

Past year issues: 12
Past year pull requests: 56
Past year average time to close issues: 9 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 3 days
Past year issue authors: 8
Past year pull request authors: 6
Past year average comments per issue: 2.25
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.36
Past year merged pull request: 45
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0

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Package metadata

Total packages: 29
Total downloads:
- conda: 2,608
- pypi: 8,523,774 last-month
Total docker downloads: 36,524,663
Total dependent packages: 135 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 2,418 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 142
Total maintainers: 5

pypi.org: blessed

Easy, practical library for making terminal apps, by providing an elegant, well-documented interface for Terminals.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://blessed.readthedocs.io
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.52.0 (published 14 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-02T01:36:37.815Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 77
Dependent Packages: 124
Dependent Repositories: 2,404
Downloads: 8,523,774 Last month
Docker Downloads: 36,524,663
Rankings:
- Downloads: 0.186%
- Dependent packages count: 0.194%
- Dependent repos count: 0.222%
- Docker downloads count: 0.572%
- Average: 1.421%
- Stargazers count: 2.046%
- Forks count: 5.307%
Maintainers (2)
- jquast
- avylove

nixpkgs-unstable: python313Packages.blessed

Thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L52
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.25-unstable-2025-12-05 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-01T10:48:12.315Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 1.897%
- Stargazers count: 3.038%
- Forks count: 4.552%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

ubuntu-24.04: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.20.0-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-29T21:30:58.463Z (2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 3.221%
- Stargazers count: 4.653%
- Forks count: 8.232%

proxy.golang.org: github.com/jquast/blessed

Homepage:
Status: removed
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/jquast/blessed#section-documentation
Licenses: mit
Latest release: v0.0.0-20260914182106-362dbe2483d0 (published about 2 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-02T01:43:53.795Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 3
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 4.262%
- Average: 4.408%
- Dependent repos count: 4.553%

conda-forge.org: blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.19.1 (published almost 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-26T18:40:54.935Z (7 months ago)
Versions: 11
Dependent Packages: 7
Dependent Repositories: 7
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 8.009%
- Average: 10.455%
- Dependent repos count: 12.9%

spack.io: py-blessed

Blessed is a thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: []
Latest release: 1.19.0 (published over 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-02T01:36:41.417Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 17
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Stargazers count: 7.739%
- Average: 12.116%
- Forks count: 12.658%
- Dependent packages count: 28.067%
Maintainers (1)
- adamjstewart

anaconda.org: blessed

Easy, practical library for making terminal apps, by providing an elegant, well-documented interface to Colors, Keyboard input, and screen Positioning capabilities.

Homepage: https://pypi.org/project/blessed
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.47.0 (published 3 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-30T01:26:48.272Z (2 months ago)
Versions: 3
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 7
Downloads: 2,608 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 40.835%
- Average: 46.037%
- Dependent packages count: 51.239%

debian-12: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/python-blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.19.1-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T07:46:23.139Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-23.05: python310Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L26
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-09T05:26:18.751Z (about 2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

nixpkgs-24.05: python311Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L41
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-09T01:08:41.153Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

nixpkgs-23.11: python311Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L26
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-12T03:03:37.779Z (7 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

debian-13: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/python-blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.21.0-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T09:01:47.557Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-24.11: python312Packages.blessed

Thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L41
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T15:14:10.527Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

nixpkgs-24.05: python312Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L41
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-09T04:04:41.769Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

gentoo-portage: dev-python/blessed

Library for making terminal apps using colors, keyboard input and positioning

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed/
Documentation: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-python/blessed
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.48.0 (published 3 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-09T01:32:06.413Z (3 months ago)
Versions: 8
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-23.11: python310Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L26
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-29T21:29:42.340Z (2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

pkgsrc-netbsd-x86_64-10.1-all: devel/py-blessed

Wrapper around terminal styling, screen positioning, and input

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://pkgsrc.se/devel/py-blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.33.0 (published 8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-07T21:30:04.470Z (about 2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-23.05: python311Packages.blessed

A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L26
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-09T05:28:56.315Z (about 2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

guix: python-blessed

Wrapper around terminal capabilities

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm#n30672
Licenses: expat
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-27T16:27:59.749Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

openbsd-7.9-amd64: sysutils/py-blessed

easy, practical library for making terminal apps

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.38.0 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-05-28T00:35:20.781Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- ports@openbsd.org

ubuntu-23.04: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.19.1-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-11T13:27:25.983Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-23.10: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.19.1-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T17:19:39.700Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-11: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python-blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.17.12-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T02:23:23.049Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-20.04: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.16.1-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:30:24.063Z (about 2 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-22.04: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.19.0-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T18:31:10.443Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-24.11: python311Packages.blessed

Thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L41
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.20.0 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-19T10:58:38.176Z (7 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

ubuntu-24.10: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.20.0-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-09T12:03:57.330Z (8 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-10: python-blessed

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/python-blessed
Licenses: mit
Latest release: 1.15.0-1 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-27T07:00:57.597Z (3 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-unstable: python314Packages.blessed

Thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python

Homepage: https://github.com/jquast/blessed
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/blessed/default.nix#L52
Licenses: MIT
Latest release: 1.25-unstable-2025-12-05 (published 9 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-11-01T11:23:48.099Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- eqyiel

Dependencies

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actions/checkout v3 composite
actions/setup-python v4 composite

docs/requirements.txt pypi

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