On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:20 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent, > > Thanks for the response. As a personal opinion, do you find it more > appropriate to use something like curses (since it's already built > into the standard Python library), or to use something "third party" > like urwid? > > This program will be distributed to lots of individuals that will > likely not have urwid installed right off the bat. > > I find the Python curses documentation to be...lacking at best. ;) > Thus the only benefit I see to curses over urwid is that it is already > "built-in" to Python.
Well, assuming they are all running this on linux, then that's probably a fair concern. If they're not going to be running it on linux they'll have problems either way. I had at one point found a pretty decent seeming curses tutorial, and as far as I can tell it should be fairly trivial to create what you want using only curses. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyCurses.pdf actually, IIRC, I downloaded some windows version of curses and ps ax since I happened to be on a windows box at the time, and it worked pretty swell. When I asked for help learning curses, most people said "Why bother? Just learn urwid". But I'm a stubborn sort and like to re-invent the wheel, as it were. Mainly because I'm currently in school and have nothing "better" to do with my time ;) Still, curses is fairly straightforward (at least so far as I've learned it), and you probably wouldn't spend much more time learning/writing a curses program than learning/writing an urwid program to do what you want. Unless you just adapt Kent's code. HTH, Wayne
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