I'm working on a small curses application that opens an external editor occasionally; in the current case I'm testing its running vi. Once I exit vi and return to the curses application I lose the background color, window frames, and any text I had on the screen before I opened vi. I can still see the program functioning though as it is still responding to key strokes and still updating small portions of the screen. I'm obviously doing something wrong but so far I haven't been able to figure out what from the documentation.
I've boiled the problem I'm seeing down to a relatively small program: import curses import os def vitest(): os.system('vi /tmp/foo_bar_baz'); return 1 def quit(): return 0 def nocommand(): return 1 command_table = { 'a' : vitest, 'q' : quit} def refresh(): screen.refresh() def keyhandler(): key = screen.getkey() result = command_table.get(key,nocommand)() screen.addstr(1,1,"Got: "+key) return result def main(stdscr): global navigation, text, screen screen = stdscr screen.border() screen.addstr(0,1," Test Window ") refresh() while keyhandler(): refresh() curses.wrapper(main) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list