Urwid
=====
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About
=====

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python on Linux, OSX, Cygwin or other unix-like OS.
It includes many features useful for text console application developers including:

- Applications resize quickly and smoothly
- Automatic, programmable text alignment and wrapping
- Simple markup for setting text attributes within blocks of text
- Powerful list box with programmable content for scrolling all widget types
- Your choice of event loops: Twisted, Glib, Tornado, asyncio or select-based loop
- Pre-built widgets include edit boxes, buttons, check boxes and radio buttons
- Display modules include raw, curses, and experimental LCD and web displays
- Support for UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings
- 24-bit (true color), 256 color, and 88 color mode support
- Compatible with Python 2.7, 3.5+ and PyPy

Home Page:
  http://urwid.org/

Installation
============

To install using pip

.. code:: bash
   
   pip install urwid

Alternatively if you are on Debian or Ubuntu

.. code:: bash

   apt-get install python-urwid

Testing
=======

To run tests locally, install & run `tox`. You must have
appropriate Python versions installed to run `tox` for
each of them.

To test code in all Python versions:

.. code:: bash

    tox                     # Test all versions specified in tox.ini:
    tox -e py39             # Test Python 3.9 only
    tox -e py39,py10,pypy3  # Test Python 3.9, Python 3.10 & pypy3

Supported Python versions
=========================

- 3.7
- 3.8
- 3.9
- 3.10
- 3.11
- 3.12
- pypy3

Authors
=======

Creator
-------

`wardi <//github.com/wardi>`_

Maintainers
-----------

`and3rson <//github.com/and3rson>`_,
`tonycpsu <//github.com/tonycpsu>`_,
`ulidtko <//github.com/ulidtko>`_

Contributors
------------

`1in7billion <//github.com/1in7billion>`_,
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`agrenott <//github.com/agrenott>`_,
`akorb <//github.com/akorb>`_,
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