On 22 October 2015 at 11:56, Peter Brittain <peter.brittain...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 10:24:11 AM UTC+1, Laura Creighton wrote: >> Fredrik Lundh's console implementation >> http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm >> might be of interest in that case, but I think it is 'old versions >> of windows only'. But it's a different take on the abstraction >> problem. I haven't used it for something like 15 years now, though, >> so can barely remember it ... > > Thanks, but I think this is already covered in my original post: I couldn't > use it directly due to the pip installation restriction. I've now created a > working Windows implementation, so I don't need another mapping for win32. > > More generally, as these posts begin to show, there was no _simple_ way for > me to get a cross-platform console API that "just worked" out of the box. > I've had to jump through various hoops to get to where I am and don't think > that other people should have to go through the same pain as I have.
I've looked for this in the past and I also found that there was no general solution that I could just pick and use for both Windows and everything else. Even just writing a cross-platform getch function is needlessly complicated. > This is one of the reasons why I've been tidying up my package to make this > as simple as possible for the next person. I've now got to the stage where I > have something that works for me, but it is almost certainly missing > something. Maybe it's not good enough documentation, maybe there's some > clunkiness left in the API due to the history of the project, maybe there's > an even better way to represent terminals than what I've come up with so far? > > I was hoping for feedback on this front rather than other ways I could > recreate the curses package - unless of course, the general consensus is that > this really is the way that Python should expose access to the > terminal/console. Thanks for creating this. I will try it out when I next want to create something like this and give some feedback then. I don't really know when that will be though... -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
