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Urwid - Console User Interface Library

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python. Urwid is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License and it includes many features useful for text console application developers.

Download Urwid

• Download Latest Stable Version: urwid-1.0.1.tar.gz
• Change Log, HG, Git and Older Versions

Screenshots

• Example Program Screenshots

Documentation

• Installation Instructions
• Urwid Tutorial
• Urwid Manual
  • MainLoop
  • DisplayModules
  • UserInput
  • WidgetLayout
  • StandardWidgets
  • WidgetMethods
  • TextLayout
  • TextEncodings
  • DisplayAttributes
  • TextAttributes
  • ListBoxContents
  • CanvasCache
  • EventLoops
• Urwid Reference
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Recommended Colour Combinations
• Future Development Wiki Pages
• Urwid Coding Style and Python3 considerations

Community

• How YOU Can Help - looking to contribute? start here!
• Mailing list and IRC Channel
• Applications using Urwid
• Contributed Example Programs
• Urwid on Ohloh - pretty charts and code analysis

System Requirements

• Python 2.4 - 2.7, 3.2+
• Linux, OSX, Cygwin or other unix-like operating system
• (optional) ncurses library to use the curses_display module
• (optional) Apache 1.3 or higher to use the web_display module
• (optional) python-glib to use the GlibEventLoop class
• (optional) Twisted to use the TwistedEventLoop class