ppytty: Present Python on a TTY

ppytty will hopefully be a tool to present Python concepts and code on terminals.

Inspired and motivated by the likes of Brandon Rhodes and David Beazely I set myself to create something to better support many presentations I do, often in training scenarios.

Wishlist

• Support "slides"-like and "REPL"-like interfaces.
• Slides will be built out of "things" like:
  • Text blocks.
  • Code blocks (like text blocks, but with auto line numbers + syntax).
  • List blocks (like text blocks, but with bullet per "item").
  • Terminals (via pseudo tty and subproceses with terminal emulation).
• General text blocks will have:
  • Width and height (not-necessarily fixed but constraint based)
  • Background, foreground and other default text attributes like bold/reverse.
  • Support double width/heigth characters.
• Things can be animated:
  • Faded in/out.
  • Moved.
• Things, like terminals, gain/loose keyboard focus.
• Handle terminal resizing nicely.

A few odd ideas

• Optional render to PDF?
• Support speaker notes (maybe via a named PIPE? or just a file?)
• Allow running a Python REPL after sourcing the contents of a "code thing" (maybe the REPL could be passed in the same "external python script" that the code thing takes itself)

Thanks

• Brandon Rhodes for the Keynote at North Bay Python 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrMnmLyYjU8) and the "The Dictionary Even Mightier" talk at PyCon 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=66P5FMkWoVU).
• David Beazely for the "Built in Super Heroes" Keynote at PyData Chicago 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=lyDLAutA88s).

About

ppytty was created by Tiago Montes.