ANN: Urwid 0.9.7.2 - Console UI Library

[Ian Ward]

Announcing Urwid 0.9.7.2
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Urwid home page:
http://excess.org/urwid/

Tarball:
http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.7.2.tar.gz


About this release:
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This maintenance release significantly improves the performance of
Urwid when run in UTF-8 mode. A UTF-8 input handling bug was also
fixed.


New in this release:
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* Improved performance in UTF-8 mode when ASCII text is used.

* Fixed a UTF-8 input bug.

* Added a clear() function to the the display modules to force
the screen to be repainted on the next draw_screen() call.


About Urwid
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Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface
resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup,
powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design.

Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.