"htop" Style Gui With Python, How?

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 at

Solution 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.

Solution 2:

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

Solution 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.