"htop" style gui with python, how?

Question

I am intersted in building some text based GUIs, things that look like the terminal, but has functions like selecting rows and performing actions.

You know, things like htop and atop, ex:

Any resource on that?

Answer 1

You need Uwrid - a console user interface library for Python.

Documentation available on the website.

There is also Curses, which is in the Python standard library.

Answer 2

don't miss http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/ also

Answer 3

Also, the library panwid offers a data table widget for Urwid, which does a lot of the heavy-lifting for an htop-like interface.