Python curses missing form library?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 14:55:34 EDT 2023


On 2023-04-24, Alan Gauld <learn2program at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/04/2023 17:26, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Does the Python curses support in the standard library not include
>> support for the curses form library? It seems to include support for
>> the panel library, but I can't find any mention of the form library.
>
> I don't believe so. If you are building terminal based form-type
> apps the best bet seems to be urwid. I haven't used it in anger
> but the beginner docs I saw looked promising.

urwid does indeed look nice, but it would require doing the whole
bundling and installing thing. I was hoping to avoid that by sticking
with stdlib and curses.

--
Grant




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