I'm working on a console application. My application uses urwid lib. In some cases, I need to show very long hyperlinks as short text inside table columns. I want to open links in the browser when I click on the text inside the column.
So, my question is:
It is possible to print text as a hyperlink to the console?
Can you provide a small example of how to print text as a hyperlink using python?
Yes, using some tools, like gNewt or Curses, you could create a button and 'on click' do an action (like open a browser to a given url).
gNewt : http://gnewt.sourceforge.net/
nCurses : https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/curses.html
Otherwise, it's the terminal application that will manage the text you give it, and if it doesn't implement uri's recognition your program won't work as you'd like.
No, some consoles do recognize urls and convert them to a clickable hyperlink. All you can do is make it easy to recognize for console applications by putting a http:// in your url.
Also see How does bash recognize a link?
This is completely not a Python question, bash itself doesn't recognize links. But some terminal emulators do. As example Gnome terminal recognize link with 'http://google.com' or 'www.google.com', but not simple 'google.com'. http:// or www indicate what this is link. Probably most other terminal emu will do same but I can't say which exactly.
