[newbie]How to install python under DOS and is there any Wxpython can be installed under dos?

Jeff Shannon jeff at ccvcorp.com
Thu Feb 17 13:38:13 EST 2005


Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> john san skrev:
> 
>>pure DOS, old pc, used for teaching . want show some "windows" under
>>DOS (under Python).
> 
> curses is a text-based interface that will let you build windowed
> applications like you could with the crt unit in Turbo Pascal of those
> golden days. I've no idea if anyone's compiled it for the 16-bits DOS
> platform, though.

Curses is a *nix interface.  There are attempts at a work-alike 
package for Windows, which by all reports are not very successful. 
Whether any of those would maintain their already-limited 
functionality under DOS is questionable.

There *are* similar-but-not-compatible libraries for DOS... or perhaps 
I should say *were*, because I have no idea where one might find such 
a thing now.  (Though I presume that Google would be the best starting 
place.)  One would then need to find/create a Python wrapper for that 
library...

Jeff Shannon




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