Newbie question (anyone programming with curses?)

[David LeBlanc]

Forgive me if i'm incorrect - it's been awhile since I mucked with curses.

Isn't the purpose of curses to convert ANSI standard codes into whatever a
particular terminal understands? If so, consoles on NT/2k/XP should all do
cursor positioning , blinking, color control etc. directly IIRC. Even
Win95/98/ME will do it if ansi.sys is loaded.

Another alternative is S-Lan and PySlan, which is platform independent and
unencumbered I believe. I have built and gotten both running on Win 2k.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Chris Gonnerman
> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 19:52
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie question (anyone programming with curses?)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com>
>
>
> > hellboy
> > > I'm quite new to Python, but I'm positive that version 2.2 (for
> > Windows)
> > > comes without curses module, though documentation states it is
> > included.
> > > import curses gives me "Import Error: no module named curses" message.
> > > Anyone knows where to download curses module (for Windows)?
> > >
> >
> > from http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/curses/node2.html
> >
> > No one has made a Windows port of the curses module. On a Windows
> > platform, try the Console module written by Fredrik Lundh. The Console
> > module provides cursor-addressable text output, plus full support for
> > mouse and keyboard input, and is available from
> > http://effbot.org/efflib/console.
> >
> > Hope this is current and helps,
>
> I found the effbot's version a bit unstable on Windows 9x (a lot actually)
> and I wound up writing WConio, based on the TCCONIO.C sources for MinGW32.
>
>     http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/wconio.html
>
> but it's still not curses.  I have considered many times creating a GConio
> (Generic Console I/O) module wrapping both WConio on Win32 and curses on
> Unixoid OS's.  Haven't done much other than think about it though.
>
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