Python output to full screen like terminal based text editor

Question

I am trying to build a program I can use to help me quickly categorize a large list of items. In order to do this I am hoping to be able to create a text based interface that allows me to quickly see what I need.

Although I can get input with input() and print with print() I am limited in building what I want to build because I cannot control the full terminal screen.

When I use vim/emacs/nano etc it causes my macOS terminal to fully display that program and the program doesn't seem to have to print() out a full page of content every time something changes. I am hoping to do something more like that but in Python and am not really sure what this is called or how to do it.

At a bare minimum it would be nice to be able to arrow through/highlight various lines of output.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65545982/python-output-to-full-screen-like-terminal-based-text-editor

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