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Top 23 Python Curse Projects
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nvitop
An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
Project mention: Show HN: Sping – A HTTP/TCP Latency Tool That's Easy on the Eye | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-24I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues.
The two best things about it are:
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asciimatics
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
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Project mention: Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-20
Blessed was a decent one iirc:
https://github.com/jquast/blessed
One reason for the lack of python might be the timing of the TUI renaissance, which I think happened (is happening?) alongside the rise of languages like Go and Rust.
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picotui
Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project.
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moulti
Moulti is a CLI-driven Terminal User Interface (TUI) displaying arbitrary outputs inside visual, collapsible blocks called steps.
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meshwatch
Communicate with Meshtastic devices using python. Send and receive messages, see data packets decoded in real time on a text based window built with curses.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Moulti: A CLI-driven Terminal User Interface, displays. outputs in blocks
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Pter: TUI and GUI for Todo.txt
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Why does stable diffusion hold onto my vram even when it’s doing nothing. It works great for a few images and then it racks up so much vram usage it just won’t do anything anymore and errors out. Is there a way to free up VRAM every so often? RX 6700XT 12GB VRAM
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RTV (reddit terminal viewer) Development is shutting down
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Advice for creating my first game?
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I'm making a notes app and am up to making an 'edit' feature, but have no way of making changes to a file's contents, let alone saving the changes and writing them to the file
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Curse projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | nvitop | 6,935 |
| 2 | asciimatics | 4,280 |
| 3 | blessed | 1,477 |
| 4 | picotui | 820 |
| 5 | pulsemixer | 797 |
| 6 | pick | 790 |
| 7 | castero | 686 |
| 8 | ansible-navigator | 533 |
| 9 | botany | 525 |
| 10 | npyscreen | 503 |
| 11 | term-image | 319 |
| 12 | git-crecord | 214 |
| 13 | moulti | 162 |
| 14 | meshwatch | 115 |
| 15 | sshch | 112 |
| 16 | NetSour | 110 |
| 17 | arcanechat-tui | 96 |
| 18 | nuber | 89 |
| 19 | exam-terminal | 22 |
| 20 | curseradio-improved | 17 |
| 21 | pyCuT | 12 |
| 22 | anki-dodawacz | 10 |
| 23 | kuiper | 10 |
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