On Jun 19, 9:04 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More precisely, curses doesn't work natively on Windows, regardless of > whether Python is involved. >
True. But then: are there other multi-platform console libraries out there? I want to code to a single API. > As with many "how do I get Unix feature foo on Windows?", one answer > is to download and install Cygwin <URL:http://www.cygwin.com/>. This > gives you a Unix-like environment where you can run a great many > applications, including ones that depend on curses. > Yes, but will I be able to easily distribute my finished application? > For working with curses in Python you might find the Urwid library > helpful. <URL:http://excess.org/urwid/> > Thanks. Just to be more precise: curses is not a requirement, a multi-platform console library with a single API is. So are there alternatives to curses? Python-only or not. And as "peter" mentions, Python _could_ have such a library, abstracting away the implementation details of the particular platform. Can't see why that would be hard at all. /David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
