dpgui

What it is and what it does

DP-GUI is a web-based interface for collecting structured user inputs, built on werkzeug and waitress. It exposes an HTTP server that serves a Vue-based frontend, allowing users to fill in form fields that correspond to Python function arguments. The package is designed to be extended: other Python packages can register their own argument schemas via entry points, so that DP-GUI automatically discovers and displays input forms for those packages' functions. The core runtime dependencies are dargs (for argument definition), werkzeug and waitress (for the web server), and importlib-metadata (for entry point discovery).

The typical workflow is to install DP-GUI, run the `dpgui` command to start the server, then open a browser to interact with the forms. Developers can extend it by adding entry points in their own packages that return dargs.Argument objects, making their package's configuration available through the GUI without modifying DP-GUI itself.

Use it for:

• Provide a web form interface for configuring complex scientific or engineering simulations without requiring users to write code.
• Build a centralized input portal where multiple installed packages can register their own configuration forms dynamically.
• Create a lightweight web UI for parameter collection in data processing or machine learning workflows.
• Allow non-technical users to set up job configurations for distributed computing tasks via a browser.
• Prototype rapid input interfaces for research tools by leveraging existing dargs argument definitions.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Provides a web-based GUI for collecting structured user inputs, with support for plugin-based argument definitions from other installed Python packages via entry points.

Yes, if you need a lightweight, extensible web form interface for Python package configuration. The low install friction, active repository, and plugin architecture make it suitable for scientific or engineering workflows. LGPLv3 copyleft is a consideration for proprietary applications. No known vulnerabilities.

Install

dpgui on PyPI

pip install dpgui

uv add dpgui

poetry add dpgui

Installing dpgui

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel and only four runtime dependencies. Repository is active with a recent commit on 2026-08-10.

License in practice

Licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3, copyleft). You may use and modify the package freely, but any derivative work must also be licensed under LGPLv3 or a compatible license; proprietary applications linking to it must provide source code access.

Quickstart

pip install dpgui
dpgui

Requires Python 3.7 or later; the web interface runs locally and expects a browser to connect to the served endpoint.

Verify before relying

• Whether the package can be used programmatically beyond the CLI entry point or if it is CLI-only.
• Performance characteristics and scalability limits for large numbers of input fields or concurrent users.
• Whether dargs, importlib-metadata, waitress, and werkzeug versions have known incompatibilities or constraints.
• Time elapsed since last release (2024-11-17) and implications for maintenance activity.

Package facts

Evidence: dpgui-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: gui

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