Guidance on writing a top-like console

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 27, 4:08 pm, 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.

Perhaps you're looking for the curses module?

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/

Mike