pmenu_lib

pmenu

Sleek dmenu alternative written in Python and powered by curses.

Comes in different flavors:

• The pmenu CLI, for your terminal and shell scripts. [ GitHub]
• The pmenu_lib package, for your Python projects. [? PyPi] [ GitHub]

You are now looking at the pmenu_lib Python package.

Usage

The pmenu(list_of_options) function will display a menu and return the selected option as a str, or None if the menu is closed without selecting an option.

from pmenu_lib import pmenu

selected_option = pmenu(list_of_options)

Menu bindings

• Up arrow: Highlight the previous menu entry.
• Down arrow: Highlight the next menu entry.
• Enter: Select the highlighted entry.
• Esc: Close the menu.