Urwid is a console user interface library that includes many features useful for text console application developers including:

* Fluid interface resizing (xterm window resizing/fbset on Linux console)
* Web application display mode using Apache and CGI
* Support for UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings
* 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 boxes
* Customizable layout for all widgets
* Easy interface for creating HTML screen shots
This is the Python 2 version of the package.