curses-like library for cross-platform console app in python

Question

I\'m looking into developing a console application in python which should be able to run under Windows as well as Linux. For this, I\'d really like to use a high-level conso

Answer 1

I recently hit this issue for a package I was putting together (https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics). I wasn't very happy with the solutions that required you to install (or worse) build separate binary executables like PDCurses or cygwin, so I created a unified API that provides console colours, cursor positioning and keyboard & mouse input for Windows, OSX and UNIX platforms.

This is now live and has been tested on CentOS 6/7 and Windows 7/8/10 and OSX 10.11. You can install it from PYPI using pip and then use the Screen class to control your console. As you can see from the project gallery, it should provide all your console needs, but if you need some extra features, please post an enhancement request on GitHub and I'll see what I can do.