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Another commenter has mentioned Python's urwid [0], which is precisely that.

This seems more like a python version of curses than a window manager

There are already curses bindings included with python; urwid is intended to be a higher level console UI library (widgets, text input boxes, dialogues, etc).

There's also Cursive if you're doing Rust stuff.

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