The original question was whether there is an alternative to curses on Windows.
One answer is to use the Win32 console API. You can program this directly in Python using the excellent pywin32 package if you're already familiar with the console API.
However, I found this too low level for my recent project. I was also less than keen on forcing my users to build/install PDcurses, and besides, I also find curses too low level for a modern OO language like Python too.
I have therefore put together a high level cross-platform API to do all the things most people want from their terminal/console. The asciimatics package will provide most of your input and output needs. If you're on Linux this is a more human way to program curses. If you're on Windows, the same class works as is with no external binary dependencies. See below for an example screenshot:
There are many other effects and widgets available which you can find in the gallery, but if there's an extra feature you need, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
