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Standard linux apps such as Nano display a pageful of text in the console, and then ‘edit’ (change) it in response to user events.
A standard python app using print can only simply print to the console.
Can I create an app simialar to Nano in that it can ‘edit’ text on the screen in Python.
Google tells me about screen buffers, however I don’t see anything about them in Python.
Can I do this?
I did not check but I’m pretty sure that, like most UNIX programs with command line user interfaces, nano uses the curses/ncurses library to display on terminal.
This is a quite famous and easy-to-use library, look at its wikipedia’s page if you want to know more.
As you can see from the wiki, it is available for python, and a quick search on google would give you some place to start, like this tutorial for example (did not read it, but it seems to cover the basics).
Good luck