Is npyscreen still alive?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-04-24, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> However... I just realized that Python's curses support is missing two
>> huge chunks: both menu and form support are not there.  I guess that
>> explains why people feel the need to write high-level UI wrappers for
>> Python curses: the high level stuff that curses does support is
>> missing from the Python bindings.
>> 
>> Adding a curses UI for my app might not be feasible after all...
>
> I guess it's also worth mentioning that Python curses doesn't work out 
> of the box on Windows - because the actual curses library isn't commonly 
> present on Windows. It's not hard to get hold of builds (check PyPI) but 
> that means it's no longer "standard".

That's a good point. I neglected to mention that the use case for
curses UI app is to run on headless Linux servers. It needs to work
when run on a Linux by a user logged in via Putty on Windows, but I
have no need to execute the application in curses-mode on Windows.

--
Grant