Alan Gauld <learn2prog...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/01/2025 00:20, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote: > > On 2025-01-13, Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > >> All of that is possible in curses, you just have to code it. > > > > All of that is easy with curses in C. Unfortunately, the high level > > "panel" and "menu" curses subystems that make it easy aren't included > > in the Python curses API, > > panel is included. Just import curses.panel. > > menu unfortunately isn't but it's not difficult to roll > your own by creating a window with a list of options, provided > you don't try to get too fancy(submenus etc). > Yes, thanks all, maybe just straightforward curses is the way to go. Looking at some of the 'cleverer' ones they end up looking remarkably like GUI code, in which case I might as well use a GUI. I have written a (fairly simple) Gtk based python program, I was just trying to avoid all the GUI overheads for a little new project.
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