How to debug python + curses? [was: RE: Applying winpdb_reborn]

[pjfarley3 at earthlink.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 7:11 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: How to debug python + curses? [was: RE: Applying winpdb_reborn]
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 08:04:54 +1000, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
> declaimed the following:
> 
> >On 30May2021 20:36, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>On Mon, 31 May 2021 08:07:21 +1000, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
> >>declaimed the following:
> >>>Open another terminal, note its terminal device with the "tty"
> >>>command.
> >>>Start your programme like this:
> >>>    python ...... 2>/dev/tty-of-the-other-termina
> >>>
> >>	The OP specified Win10, so the above is dead from the start.
> >
> >Good point; I wasn't aware that curses worked in Windows.
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/howto/curses.html
> "The Windows version of Python doesn’t include the curses module. A ported
> version called UniCurses is available."
> 
> 	Appears the easiest is to PIP "windows-curses" then track down
> piecemeal installs (it is unclear if UniCurses includes PDCurses, or needs that as a
> separate install).

Indeed, that is likely the one most commonly used because it is easy to install and mostly "just works".  Unicurses has not been worked on since 2010 and gets no responses to issues raised, plus these days it requires compiling your own binary of the PDCurses libraries (which isn’t actually very hard, but . . .).  Also, PDCurses no longer distributes binary downloads for recent python versions.  The last version available as a binary download is for python 3.4.

Peter