Text based screens without ncurses

[Shawn Milochik]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid> wrote:
> On 2008-11-13, Mirat Can Bayrak <miratcanbayrak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, i'll try to write a editor in python, i want it run under
>> terminal (no qt or gtk) but i dont want to use urwid or curses
>> modules.
>>
>> Can i write my curses like module in python?
>
> Sure.  If you don't want to use the ncurses library, then you
> could use something like slang (the Python package containing
> slang is called newt).
>
> Or you can use terminfo/termcap like this:
>
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475116/
>
>> i googled to find metods that curses uses to write
>> characters,colors etc. on screen but it did not make sense to
>> me. Can u help me?
>
> Probably not.
>
>> any ideas? any suggestions?
>
> Well, I'd working on my spelling and typing skills and stop
> using SMS-speak on Usenet.
>


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ShawnMilo