Guidance on writing a top-like console

[alex23]

On Feb 28, 8:08 am, ntwrkd <ntw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am interested in writing an application that functions like a Unix
> or Linux top in the way it displays data.
> It should be command-line based but dynamically refreshing.
>
> I'm not sure what I should take into account or how I might go about
> implementing this?
> Any suggestions are appreciated.

Urwid is a Python console UI lib and is definitely what I'd turn to
for something like this:

http://excess.org/urwid/