Python3 curses behavior

Vlasov Vitaly vnigtha at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 17:06:00 EST 2013


суббота, 9 февраля 2013 г., 23:22:47 UTC+4 пользователь Terry Reedy написал:
> On 2/9/2013 6:23 AM, Vlasov Vitaly wrote:
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> > Hello.
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> >
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> > I found strange behavior of curses module, that i can't understand. I
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> > initialize screen with curses.initscr(), then i create subwin of
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> > screen with screen.subwin(my_subwin_sizes). After that i fill subwin
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> > with my_char in for-loop. On last char in last line subwin.addch()
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> > raises exception.
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> 
> I have never used curses but I have used text screens. I suspect that 
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> addch moves the cursor to the position beyond where the character is 
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> added, but there is no such position. I remember having problems writing 
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> to the last char of a 24x80 screen without getting either a scroll or 
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> beep if scrolling was disabled.
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> > This is my problem. Why? How to fix it?
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> 
> 
> Perhaps this will help:
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> window.leaveok(yes)
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> If yes is 1, cursor is left where it is on update, instead of being at 
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> “cursor position.” This reduces cursor movement where possible. If 
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> possible the cursor will be made invisible.
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> > (If i will ignore exception, then last char will be displayed)
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> Otherwise, just catch the exception, as you already discovered.
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> > Here simple example: http://pastebin.com/SjyMsHZB
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> -- 
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> Terry Jan Reedy

Thank you.

I tried everything in my test script.
win.leaveok() - no effect
curses.cur_vis() - no effect
win.scrollok() - start newline and place cursor on it

It's only one last option:
on last line last char try/except with pass.



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