Is there a library for creating interactive long running terminal applications?

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  • typer

    Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

    • I could probably manually do all this in curses, I was just hoping Python would have something more high level, similar to click or typer

  • python-prompt-toolkit

    Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

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  • curtsies

    Curses-like terminal wrapper with a display based on compositing 2d arrays of text.

  • urwid

    Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

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