[Python-Dev] _cursesmodule linking, and portability
Moshe Zadka
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>
Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:21:31 +0300 (IDT)
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> OK. The story is this:
>
> 1. has_key() is unique to ncurses. It's not specified in the
> X/Open curses API.
>
> 2. We added it for a reason :-). It's hard to write programs that adapt to
> different numbers of function keys without it -- and this is still an issue.
> because that number still varies even though all the world is a VT100
> emulator these days.
>
> So I recommend trying to add has_key to the curses module interface in Python,
> conditionalized on whether you can pick it out of the local curses headers.
This sounds just like what Mark did. Or maybe I'm reading you wrong.
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