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

  • Fluid interface resizing (xterm window resizing / fbset on Linux console)

  • Support for 8-bit and CJK encodings

  • Multiple text alignment and wrapping modes built-in

  • Ability to register user-defined text alignment and wrapping modes

  • Simple markup for setting text attributes

  • Powerful list box that handles scrolling between different widget types

  • List box contents may be managed with a user-defined class

  • Flexible edit box for editing many different types of text

  • Easy interface for creating HTML screen shots

Home Page:

http://excess.org/urwid/

Example Program Screenshots:

http://excess.org/urwid/examples.html

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Newer release available (4.0.13)

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Credits

Author: Ian Ward

License

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (LGPL)

Tags

curses ui widget scroll listbox interface text layout

Classifiers

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