Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python?

eclectic959 at gmail.com eclectic959 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 07:30:49 EST 2015


The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0.

With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the current 8 or 16.

I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline) partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes.



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