On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:44:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 03/12/2015 12:30, eclectic...@gmail.com wrote: > > The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0. > > > > With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the > > current 8 or 16. > > > > I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is > > not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of > > pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates > > a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the > > existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline) > > partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes. > > > > Work is all ready being done to support building Python with ncurses6, > see https://bugs.python.org/issue25720. Whether this alone meets your > needs or an enhancement request on the bug tracker against 3.6 is > required I'm really not qualified to say. > > -- > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > what you can do for our language. > > Mark Lawrence
ncurses6 provides both an application binary interface for ncurses6.0 an one for ncurses5.0. Perhaps it will take an enhancement request to adopt the ABI 6.0 that su[prts 256 colors. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
