Urwid is a curses-based 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 8-bit and CJK encodings
* Multiple text alignment and wrapping modes built-in
* Ability to register user-defined text alignment and wrapping modes
* 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
* Easy interface for creating HTML screen shots

WWW: http://urwid.org/