Richard S. Gordon added the comment: > On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Richard S. Gordon <rigo...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:16 AM, STINNER Victor <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: >> >> >> STINNER Victor added the comment: >> >>> Generated colors appear to be corrupted by overloading text attribute with >>> specified foreground and background colors. >> >> Python doesn't contain anything in its stdlib to control the color of the >> terminal. Are you sure that you posted your bug report at the right place? >> >> ---------- >> nosy: +haypo >> >> _______________________________________ >> Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> >> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30609> >> _______________________________________ > > My application, emulates the high level wxPython API, using the standard > Python curses package. It uses such curses API methods as window.attron(text > attribute) and window.attroff(text attribute). Now that ncurses 6.0 has been > released, it supports 64-bit processors and 256+colors. Python 3.6.1 should > have been updated to support the new ncurses 64-bit API. It does not seem to > have been updated. With the ncurses5.x 32-bit API, the Python 2x and 3x > curses modules supported up to 16 colors and up to 64 color pairs. The > updated curses packages should support at least 256 colors and at least 65536 > color pairs. > > Richard S. Gordon
I neglected to state that ncurses 6.0 changed certain c/c++ data types to support the additional data bits needed to support more colors. The Python curses stdlib needs to reflect the new c/c++ ncurses data types. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30609> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
