curses-like library for cross-platform console app in python

There is a wcurses. I've never tried it but it may meet your needs. It sounds like it doesn't have full curses compatibility, but may be close enough. Also it might not be using the DOS terminal, but opening a GUI window and drawing monospaced text inside.

Other windows text mode options are:

• The console module;
• wconio -- based on Borland's C conio library.

I believe both are windows only.

I recently hit this issue for a package I was putting together (https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics). I wasn't very happy with the solutions that required you to install (or worse) build separate binary executables like PDCurses or cygwin, so I created a unified API that provides console colours, cursor positioning and keyboard & mouse input for Windows, OSX and UNIX platforms.

This is now live and has been tested on CentOS 6/7 and Windows 7/8/10 and OSX 10.11. You can install it from PYPI using pip and then use the Screen class to control your console. As you can see from the project gallery, it should provide all your console needs, but if you need some extra features, please post an enhancement request on GitHub and I'll see what I can do.

PDCurses works on Windows, but I don't know any Python wrapper.I wonder whether the curses module could be implemented on Windows with PDCurses?