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I'm not even sure what these would be called? I used to write them in ADA running on VAX-VMS!

I want to make a simple menu-driven application that would let me display menus and use the cursor keys to navigate around them, choose items and navigate around the app. All fully old school text based.

I want to be able to take over the whole terminal window and display stuff in different places.

Is this possible in Python?

asked Jun 3, 2012 at 19:14

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Check out the Python HOWTO on Curses Programming with Python and here is the library reference.

answered Jun 3, 2012 at 19:17
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@MalphasWats happy to have been able to help.
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Another easy to use library is Urwid - Console User Interface Library.

http://excess.org/urwid/

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

answered Feb 23, 2013 at 18:13

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Yes, have a look at the different curses implementations.

answered Jun 3, 2012 at 19:15

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