consider using termbox

[andrewrk]

https://github.com/nsf/termbox

If curses is misbehaving

[mattspitz]

Grood idea. I'm a little wary of adding external dependencies, though. Curses is pretty widely-installed, if inconsistent.

[mattspitz]

This also looks good:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blessings/