[Tutor] Curses - What does it do and why is it called this?

[Alan Gauld]

"Katt" <the_only_katala at verizon.net> wrote

> Now I understand.  Makes sense.  If "Curses" is for UNIX what would I use 
> on
> a Windows XP system using Python 2.6.2?

It does exist for DOS too but the Python bindings don;t sem to work well.

However for most simple terminal handling you can use the msvcrt module
(msvcrt = MicroSoft Visual C RunTime). There is also a conio module
(based on Borland's I/O library) which provides a bit more in the way of
cursor control. And I think Fred Lundh has a Terminal module that is
OS independant.

But for creating actual forms etc I'f just go with a GUI in Tkinter
or somesuch.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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