On 2023-04-24, Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> However... I just realized that Python's curses support is missing two >> huge chunks: both menu and form support are not there. I guess that >> explains why people feel the need to write high-level UI wrappers for >> Python curses: the high level stuff that curses does support is >> missing from the Python bindings. >> >> Adding a curses UI for my app might not be feasible after all... > > I guess it's also worth mentioning that Python curses doesn't work out > of the box on Windows - because the actual curses library isn't commonly > present on Windows. It's not hard to get hold of builds (check PyPI) but > that means it's no longer "standard".
That's a good point. I neglected to mention that the use case for curses UI app is to run on headless Linux servers. It needs to work when run on a Linux by a user logged in via Putty on Windows, but I have no need to execute the application in curses-mode on Windows. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
