---
id: wasabi
version: "1.1.3"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# wasabi — A lightweight console printing and formatting toolkit

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 21.0M/mo

## 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 above — 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

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

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 21.0M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

console printing with colors, terminal formatting library, colored console output, cli message formatting, terminal text styling, console logging with icons, ansi color output, pretty print messages, cli-output, console-formatting, terminal-colors

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