wasabi

What it is and what it does

Wasabi is a lightweight toolkit for printing and formatting console output with colors, icons, and predefined message types. It wraps a Printer class that handles styled terminal output—success messages, warnings, errors, info messages, dividers, and loading animations—with customizable colors, icons, and formatting options. The package is designed to be simple and specific rather than a fully customizable formatting library, making it suitable for projects that need consistent, visually distinct console messaging without heavy dependencies.

The package depends on typing-extensions and colorama for its runtime behavior. It supports Python 3.6 and later, making it compatible with a wide range of Python environments. Wasabi is actively maintained and has accumulated a moderate user base (top 5000 on PyPI by download volume), indicating stable, production-ready status with no known security vulnerabilities.

Use it for:

• Add colored success/failure/warning messages to CLI tools and scripts for better user feedback.
• Format console output in data processing pipelines to highlight important events or status changes.
• Create visually distinct logging output in library code (e.g., spaCy, Thinc, Prodigy) without heavy dependencies.
• Display loading animations and progress indicators in long-running terminal operations.
• Build consistent, branded console output across multiple related command-line tools.

Worth the install?

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

Wasabi provides lightweight console printing and formatting with colors, icons, and structured message types (success, failure, warning, info) for terminal output.

Yes. Wasabi is a lightweight, actively maintained, permissively licensed package with low install friction and no known vulnerabilities. It solves a real problem—styled console output—in a focused, dependency-light way. Install it if you need simple, consistent colored messages and formatting in CLI tools or libraries.

Install

wasabi on PyPI

pip install wasabi

uv add wasabi

poetry add wasabi

Installing wasabi

Before you install

Low install friction with only two runtime dependencies (typing-extensions and colorama). The package is actively maintained with a recent commit on 2026-03-27 and has been in active development since its first release on 2018-11-17.

License in practice

MIT license is permissive, allowing free use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart

pip install wasabi

from wasabi import Printer

msg = Printer()
msg.good("Success!")
msg.fail("Error occurred")
msg.warn("Warning message")

Requires Python 3.6 or later.

Verify before relying

• Whether the package's zero-dependency claim in the description excerpt remains accurate given the listed runtime dependencies typing-extensions and colorama.

Package facts

Evidence: wasabi-1.1.3-py3-none-any.whl

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