Urwid

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About

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python on Linux, OSX, Cygwin or other unix-like OS and partially supports Windows OS (see below).

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, asyncio, trio, ZeroMQ 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

  • 24-bit (true color), 256 color, and 88 color mode support

  • Compatible with Python 3.9+ and PyPy

Home Page:

http://urwid.org/

Installation

To install using pip

pip install urwid

For advanced functionality extra requirements need to be installed. Example for ZeroMQ event loop and LCD display:

pip install urwid[serial,zmq]

Alternatively if you are on Debian or Ubuntu

apt-get install python3-urwid

Windows support notes

Windows support is limited to the Windows 10+ due to ANSI support requirement.

  • Not supported:

  1. Terminal widget and all related render API (TermCanvas, TermCharset, TermModes, TermScroller)

  2. Any file descriptors except sockets (Windows OS limitation)

  3. ZMQEventLoop.

  • Special requirements:

  1. Extra libraries required for curses display support:

pip install urwid[curses]

  • CursesDisplay incorrectly handles mouse input in case of fast actions.

  • Only UTF-8 mode is supported.

Testing

To run tests locally, install & run tox. You must have appropriate Python versions installed to run tox for each of them.

To test code in all Python versions:

tox                     # Test all versions specified in tox.ini:
tox -e py39             # Test Python 3.9 only
tox -e py39,py10,pypy3  # Test Python 3.9, Python 3.10 & pypy3

Supported Python versions

  • 3.9

  • 3.10

  • 3.11

  • 3.12

  • 3.13

  • 3.14

  • pypy3

Authors

Creator

wardi

Maintainers

and3rson, tonycpsu, ulidtko, penguinolog

Contributors

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Python >=3.9.0

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