wasabi
A lightweight console printing and formatting toolkit
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
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.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.6 or later.
- 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 · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license is permissive, allowing free use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions.
last release 2024-05-31 (805 days) · last repo commit 2026-03-27 · 470 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 21,045,789 downloads/mo, #1,014 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install wasabi
from wasabi import Printer
msg = Printer()
msg.good("Success!")
msg.fail("Error occurred")
msg.warn("Warning message")- Whether the package's zero-dependency claim in the description excerpt remains accurate given the listed runtime dependencies typing-extensions and colorama.
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?
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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
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.
Requires Python 3.6 or later.
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")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
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.6 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 2 packagestyping-extensionscolorama |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 805 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 21,045,789 / month, #1,014 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
Evidence: wasabi-1.1.3-py3-none-any.whl
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