On 20/05/2020 01:48, Cameron Simpson wrote: > It may be that the person who wrote the curses module simply got tired.
That was my assumption. Although the implementation includes some functions that are a lot more obscure. Usually when one is missing there is an alternative with the same effect, but in this case I can't find any way of finding out the attributes of a piece of text. You can read the text with instr() but it does not include the attributes. I confess I've never needed this functionality and only realized it was missing by working through the HOWO document. But I can see where it might be useful, say to toggle from bold to dim or somesuch. > Or it predates the get_attr calls (not sure now old they are). >From the man page it looks like its been there since SVR3 at least. But in browsing the man pages I came across another function that returns the attributes for a single character - inch(). That is supported in Python. To get the current settings you would need to write a character to the window(addch), fetch its attributes using inch() then delete the character just written (delch). Clunky but it should work. I'll try it and see if I can create an attr_get(win)->int function in Python... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
