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Urwid is a console user interface library for Python. It includes many features useful for text console application developers including:

• Applications resize quickly and smoothly
• Automatic, programmable text alignment and wrapping
• Simple markup for setting text attributes within blocks of text
• Powerful list box with programmable content for scrolling all widget types
• Your choice of event loops: Twisted, Glib, Tornado or select-based loop
• Pre-built widgets include edit boxes, buttons, check boxes and radio buttons
• Display modules include raw, curses, and experimental LCD and web displays
• Support for UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings
• 256 and 88 color mode support
• Compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2+ and PyPy

Home Page:

https://urwid.org/