[Tutor] Curses example on Linux?

[Hossein Movahhedian]

   Dear Danny
   Hi,
   Many thanks for your help and especially the references in your
reply. Now the code works fine.
   BTW, I had to replace "ky = msvcrt.getch()" with
 "ky = chr(msvcrt.getch())".

Regards,
Hossein

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Hossein Movahhedian wrote:
>
> >    I have copied the following example from "Learning to Program by Alan
> >  Gauld (section: Event Driven Programming)". To run it on Linux
> >  (Redhat 8.0; Python 2.4) the tutorial says to replace 'msvcrt'
> >  with 'curses.stdscr'.
>
>
> Hi Hossein,
>
>
> According to:
>
>     http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/
>
>
> Alan probably meant to say to replace:
>
> ######
> import msvcrt
> ######
>
> with:
>
> ######
> import curses
> msvcrt = curses.initscr()
> ######
>
> as a quick hack to replace 'msvcrt' with something that works on Linux.
>
>
> It sounded that you wanted to look at other examples of curses
> programming?  A long time ago, I wrote a quick-and-dirty demo program that
> uses curses here:
>
>     http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/circularwriting.py
>
>
> Good luck to you!
>