Python library for (n)curses widgets

Question

While Python's standard library has a module for curses, that seems to require a lot of fairly low-level handling.

Is there a simpler way to get started with writing a basic curses UI which includes standard elements like checkboxes, input fields etc.?

I've found urwid, but not sure whether that's the state of the art.

Answer 1

pycdk is a Python interface to the CDK ncurses widget library, which is pretty high-level. Might do what you want.

Answer 2

Also check out Urwid:

http://excess.org/urwid/