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urwid 0.9.9.1

A console UI library featuring fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design.

Latest Version: 1.0.1

Urwid is a console 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 UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings
  • 256 and 88 color mode support
  • Multiple text alignment and wrapping modes built-in
  • Ability to create user-defined text layout classes
  • 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
  • Buttons, check boxes and radio buttons
  • Customizable layout for all widgets
  • Web application display mode using Apache and CGI
  • Easy interface for creating HTML screen shots
Home Page:
http://excess.org/urwid/
Example Program Screenshots:
http://excess.org/urwid/examples.html