Sorry for the excessively long delay in getting to this! A change I just pushed should fix this problem for you: http://excess.org/urwid/changeset/668%3Ac4a62ea151e7 https://github.com/wardi/urwid/commit/0722802a3a5fc70695e20d6e9334fa93fc3dbb68 Please confirm and I'll try to get 1.0.2 out as quickly as possible. Ian