Documentation

The Tutorial is the best place to start.

The Reference Manual covers Urwid's important classes and methods.

Examples

The Example Programs included demonstrate advanced Urwid usage.

Browse the example program source code:

• source:urwid/trunk/tour.py
• source:urwid/trunk/fib.py
• source:urwid/trunk/edit.py
• source:urwid/trunk/browse.py
• source:urwid/trunk/calc.py
• source:urwid/trunk/dialog.py
• source:urwid/trunk/graph.py
• source:urwid/trunk/bigtext.py

Contributed Examples

These menu bar/dialog, file chooser and scrollbar examples were contributed by Rebecca Breu:

• source:contrib/trunk/rbreu_menus.py
• source:contrib/trunk/rbreu_filechooser.py (updated 2006.10.17)
• source:contrib/trunk/rbreu_scrollbar.py

This is an IRC client that uses the Twisted networking library contributed by Ilpo Nyyssönen:

• source:contrib/trunk/inyyssonen_twisted_irc.py

PyMills as an example of using it's event library uses urwid as a simple irc client.

• PyMills IRC client example using urwid

This is a "slideshow" presentation I gave on 2006.04 at OCLUG:

• source:contrib/trunk/oclug200604.py