# terminal_boxes

URL: /kida/api/utils/terminal_boxes/
Section: utils
Description: Box-drawing character sets for Kida terminal templates.

Provides ``BoxChars`` (a frozen dataclass of box-drawing characters) and
``BoxSet`` (a proxy that selects a style by name from templates).

Usage in templates::

    {% set b = box.round %}
    {{ b.tl }}{{ b.h * width }}{{ b.tr }}

Thread-Safety:
    Both ``BoxChars`` and ``BoxSet`` are immutable. Safe for concurrent access.

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Module

#
`utils.terminal_boxes`

Box-drawing character sets for Kida terminal templates.

Provides`BoxChars`(a frozen dataclass of box-drawing characters) and
`BoxSet`(a proxy that selects a style by name from templates).

Usage in templates::

```
{% set b = box.round %}
{{ b.tl }}{{ b.h * width }}{{ b.tr }}
```

Thread-Safety:
Both`BoxChars` and `BoxSet`are immutable. Safe for concurrent access.

2Classes

## Classes

`BoxChars`

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A complete set of box-drawing characters for one style.

Fields:
tl, tr, bl, br: Corner charact…

A complete set of box-drawing characters for one style.

Fields:

```
tl, tr, bl, br: Corner characters (top-left, top-right, etc.)
h, v: Horizontal and vertical line characters.
lj, rj, tj, bj: Junction characters (left, right, top, bottom).
cross: Four-way junction character.
```

#### Attributes

Name
Type
Description

`tl`

`str`

—

`tr`

`str`

—

`bl`

`str`

—

`br`

`str`

—

`h`

`str`

—

`v`

`str`

—

`lj`

`str`

—

`rj`

`str`

—

`tj`

`str`

—

`bj`

`str`

—

`cross`

`str`

—

`BoxSet`

3

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Proxy object for accessing box-drawing styles from templates.

Attribute access returns a ``BoxChar…

Proxy object for accessing box-drawing styles from templates.

Attribute access returns a`BoxChars`instance for the requested style.
When`unicode` is False, all styles resolve to the `ascii`set.

#### Methods

Internal Methods
3

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`__init__`

1

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`def __init__(self, *, unicode: bool = True) -> None`

##### Parameters

Name
Type
Description

`unicode`
`—`

Default:`True`

`__getattr__`

1

`BoxChars`

▼

`def __getattr__(self, name: str) -> BoxChars`

##### Parameters

Name
Type
Description

`name`
`—`

##### Returns

`BoxChars`

`__repr__`

0

`str`

▼

`def __repr__(self) -> str`

##### Returns

`str`