Curses is a really fun module to use, although like anything it can bite you if you're not careful. Speaking of which, here is a concise and straightforward example of using the Curses module although as the author notes, he assumes a bit about the terminal size. And not only is it a good working example, it's funny, too. (:

Also if you care to deobfuscate it, this node is also rather edumacational.
I'd give an example myself, but I'm at work right now ):

strfry()