Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-blessings, python2-blessings): New
>   variables.

Perhaps this too can go in terminals.scm?

> ---
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index c5f8ee43f..61739ceb6 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -12457,3 +12457,34 @@ of VT100 terminal.")
>  
>  (define-public python2-pyte
>    (package-with-python2 python-pyte))
> +
> +(define-public python-blessings
> +  (package
> +    (name "python-blessings")
> +    (version "1.6.1")
> +    (source
> +      (origin
> +        (method url-fetch)
> +        (uri (pypi-uri "blessings" version))
> +        (sha256
> +          (base32
           ^^^
Indentation is off.

> +           "1smngy65p8mi62lgm04icasx22v976szhs2aq95y2ljmi1srb4bl"))))
> +    (build-system python-build-system)
> +    (arguments
> +     ;; TODO: For py3, 2to2 is used to convert the code, but test-suite fails
> +     `(#:tests? #f))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("python-nose" ,python-nose)))
> +    (home-page "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings")

I think <https://github.com/erikrose/blessings> is more home-page-y, but
no strong opinion.

> +    (synopsis "Simple but powerful module to manage terminal color, styling,
> +and positioning")

Maybe s/Simple but powerful/Python/ to keep the synopsis "dry".

LGTM otherwise.

> +    (description "Blessings is a pythonic API to manipulate terminal color,
> +styling, and positioning.  It provides similar features to curses but avoids
> +some of curses’s limitations: it does not require clearing the whole screen
> +for little changes, provides a scroll-back buffer after the program exits, and
> +avoids styling altogether when the output is redirected to something other
> +than a terminal.")
> +    (license license:expat)))
> +
> +(define-public python2-blessings
> +  (package-with-python2 python-blessings))
> -- 
> 2.13.6