> You could write your own little console interface, tailored to
> your needs, which is implemented using curses on Unix, and the
> effbot's 'console' on Windows.
Indeed, that's basically what I have done. Just can't help thinking
how much simpler (and so less error prone) it would have been had
On 2007-06-20, Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:51:09 -0700, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> > For me, introducing similar commands in Python would be by far the
>>> > biggest single improvement that could be made to the language.
>>
>>> If it should be don
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:51:09 -0700, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > For me, introducing similar commands in Python would be by far the
>> > biggest single improvement that could be made to the language.
>
>> If it should be done, it should be done as a compatible subset of
>> curses, IMHO
On 6/20/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > For me, introducing similar commands in Python would be by far the
> > > biggest single improvement that could be made to the language.
>
> > If it should be done, it should be done as a compatible subset of
> > curses, IMHO. It has such a long
> > For me, introducing similar commands in Python would be by far the biggest
> > single improvement that could be made to the language.
> If it should be done, it should be done as a compatible subset of
> curses, IMHO. It has such a long history as the standard "GUI toolkit"
But curses does
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jun 19, 3:27 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Just to be more precise: curses is not a requirement, a
> > > multi-platform console library with a single API is. So are there
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Jun 19, 3:27 pm, Ben Finney
>> And as "peter" mentions, it awaits only someone doing that work
>> and contributing it to Python. Those who can't see why it would
>> be hard are welcome to do so.
>
> The classic answer.
Yes, because of the classic problem with unsala
On Jun 19, 3:27 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Just to be more precise: curses is not a requirement, a
> > multi-platform console library with a single API is. So are there
> > alternatives to curses? Python-only or not.
>
You wouldn
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:43:09 -0700, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've said it before and I'll say it again. Why does Python have no
> platform neutral commands for simple screen manipulation? yabasic (a
> 'hobby' type language - http://www.yabasic.de/) has commands clear
> screen, inkey$ a
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just to be more precise: curses is not a requirement, a
> multi-platform console library with a single API is. So are there
> alternatives to curses? Python-only or not.
>
> And as "peter" mentions, Python _could_ have such a library,
> abstracting
On Jun 19, 9:04 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> More precisely, curses doesn't work natively on Windows, regardless of
> whether Python is involved.
>
True. But then: are there other multi-platform console libraries out
there? I want to code to a single API.
> As with many "how do I
On Jun 19, 2:17 am, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This link offers a series of links for console
> IO...http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/303984.html
>
Thanks.
> Among them is a link to the 'wcurses' module that has been relocated
> here:http://adamv.com/d
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Why does Python have no
platform neutral commands for simple screen manipulation? yabasic (a
'hobby' type language - http://www.yabasic.de/) has commands clear
screen, inkey$ and putscreen$ which perform the basic functions of
clearing the screen, readi
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The obvious choice, I thought, was ncurses. But as far as I can
> tell, it is not available for Python on Windows?
More precisely, curses doesn't work natively on Windows, regardless of
whether Python is involved.
As with many "how do I get Unix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to develop a cross-platform text-mode application. I would like
> to do it in Python and I would like to use a mature text-mode library
> for the UI stuff.
>
> The obvious choice, I thought, was ncurses. But as far as I can tell,
> it is not available for Python o
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