whiptail

Use whiptail to display dialog boxes from Python scripts.

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whiptail is a library that will let you present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a Python script.

Currently, these types of dialog boxes are implemented:

  • yes/no box

  • menu box

  • input box

  • message box

  • text box

  • info box

  • checklist box

  • radiolist box

  • gauge box

  • password box

Installation

python3 -m pip install whiptail-dialogs --user

You must also have the whiptail package installed on your system.

On Debian and derivatives this can be installed with:

apt-get install whiptail

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