Text Mode Interface Toolkits

afreeman asks: "We're currently transmogrifying some 100+ odd Python scripts into a workable sysadmin toolkit (we're also hiring another 30 or so entry-level Admins RSN), and are looking for a way to wrap everything together with a simple front end. For a variety of reasons, most of our hardware doesn't run X or a web server, which leaves text-mode interfaces. Besides curses, the most promising kits look to be UMenu, or TUI (for Perl). Any suggestions on approaches to quickly building Text Mode UIs, particularly with Python?"