Episode Details

What are the current Python graphical user interface libraries? Should you build everything in the terminal and create a text-based user interface instead? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

We cover a Real Python article that explores the Textual library. Textual is a Python toolkit and framework for creating attractive and functional text-based user interface (TUI) applications that run in the user’s terminal. The tutorial covers organizing layouts of widgets, styling components, and handling events and user actions within an application.

We continue our exploration of user interface options for your projects by discussing a recent article about Python GUI libraries. The piece compares the frameworks, showing a quick preview of how they look and sample code for a simple application. We share our thoughts and experiences with several of the libraries as we go through the collection.

We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a news roundup, handling binary data in Python, exploring the rules terminal programs follow, using Microsoft Edge’s online text-to-speech service from Python, and a project for reading and writing compressed JSON.

Topics:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction
• 00:02:16 – PyCon US: Travel Grants & Refund Policy
• 00:02:57 – PyCon US 2025 travel guidance?
• 00:03:32 – Faster Branch Coverage Measurement
• 00:04:11 – Python Release Python 3.14.0a6
• 00:04:21 – Django 5.2 Release Candidate 1 Released
• 00:04:30 – PyOhio July 26-27, Call for Papers
• 00:04:59 – PEP 779: Criteria for Supported Status for Free-Threaded Python
• 00:05:45 – Python Textual: Build Beautiful UIs in the Terminal
• 00:11:32 – Bytes Objects: Handling Binary Data in Python
• 00:16:41 – Video Course Spotlight
• 00:18:01 – Which Python GUI Library Should You Use in 2025?
• 00:32:08 – Real Python Workshops
• 00:34:23 – “Rules” That Terminal Programs Follow
• 00:40:29 – edge-tts: Use Microsoft Edge’s online text-to-speech service from Python
• 00:44:07 – compress_json: Read and Write Compressed JSON
• 00:45:34 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

• PyCon US: Travel Grants & Refund Policy – PyCon US offers travel grants to visitors. This post explains how they’re decided. Also, with changing border requirements in the US, you may also be interested in the Refund Policy for International Attendees.
• PyCon US 2025 travel guidance? - PSF / Ask the staff! - Discussions on Python.org
• Faster Branch Coverage Measurement – After nearly two years, Ned thinks this is finally ready: coverage.py can use sys.monitoring to more efficiently measure branch coverage.
• Python Release Python 3.14.0a6
• Django 5.2 Release Candidate 1 Released

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