curses library

[Ghirai]

Hello list,

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

Thanks.
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Regards,
Ghirai.

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-08-14, Ghirai <gh****@ghirai.comwrote:

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

The answer depends on your chosen platform. Python hasn't got a
cross-platform console library as one of its included batteries.

First try the curses module. It does come with Python on systems
with a curses port.

For Windows, there's the Effbot's console module.
http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm

Or go to plan B: Use a Tkinter or other GUI interface's text
widget.

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Neil Cerutti

[Ghirai]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:27:16 GMT
Neil Cerutti <ho*****@yahoo.comwrote:

On 2007-08-14, Ghirai <gh****@ghirai.comwrote:

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

The answer depends on your chosen platform. Python hasn't got a
cross-platform console library as one of its included batteries.

First try the curses module. It does come with Python on systems
with a curses port.

For Windows, there's the Effbot's console module.
http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm

Or go to plan B: Use a Tkinter or other GUI interface's text
widget.

Forgot to say, i don't need it to work on windows :)

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Regards,
Ghirai.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <ma***************************************@python. org>, Ghirai
wrote:

I need to write a console application.

Why not just use VT100 escape sequences directly? Terminal emulators don't
support anything else.

[Laurent Pointal]

Ghirai wrote:

Hello list,

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

Thanks.

I have some links here:
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal...s-graph-curses

A+

Laurent.

[Ben Finney]

Ghirai <gh****@ghirai.comwrites:

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?

Python has its own 'curses' module in the standard library of course.

<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses>

That's if you want to work directly with the curses functionality,
which is rather low-level.

Or any other similar libraries?

The library that I always think of when I think "Python ncurses
wrapper" is:

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python.

<URL:http://excess.org/urwid/>

Available as a package (e.g. 'python-urwid') in most GNU/Linux
distributions, or you can install it from the download link.

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