On Tue 10 Jan 2023 at 11:13:55 (-0500), [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:31:26 -0600 > David Wright <[email protected]> > wrote:
> > You keep mentioning "the docs" without saying which docs, so a > > reference might be helpful. > > Sorry. I'm using the following (and related pages): > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/curses.html > > These appear to be the most authoritative. Correct. > > On Tue 10 Jan 2023 at 09:01:17 (-0500), [email protected] wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:34:05 -0500 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:24:11AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > What you wrote triggered something. I'd been following the > > > > > Python curses docs, which tell you to write, for example, > > > > > "A_REVERSE". No, they don't. > > > > > And Python was throwing exceptions. But based on > > > > > what you wrote, I substituted "curses.A_REVERSE", which works. > > > > > > > > > > Problem solved... for now. > > > > Exactly: just for now. > > > > > > I'm a Python novice, but I believe what you're seeing is the > > > > difference between > > > > > > No, here's what happened. I was going along, and I used "A_REVERSE" > > > in my code, according to the online docs. Exception, didn't > > > recognize the name. That didn't make sense; this attribute is basic > > > to curses. Exactly, it's an attribute, as shown by the heading of the table in which you found A_REVERSE. And that attribute is a part of the curses module, and must be qualified with curses.A_REVERSE unless you import A_REVERSE (or all, *) into your namespace. What has misled you is that all the /tables/ in the python documentation have just the last component's name in column one, with its interpretation in column two. If you want to see why, glance at a page like file:///usr/share/doc/python3/html/library/collections.abc.html for example. The first ABC item in the table is "Container", but the running text below shows: class collections.abc.Container ABC for classes that provide the __contains__() method. The table would be unmanageable if most of its width was taken up with repetitions of: class collections.abc.… … … … class collections.abc.… … … … class collections.abc.… … … … class collections.abc.… … … … class collections.abc.… … … … class collections.abc.… … … … Cheers, David.
