curses library

[Ghirai]

Hello list,

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

Thanks.

 

[Neil Cerutti]

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

The answer depends on your chosen platform. Python hasn't got a
cross-platform console library as one of its included batteries.

First try the curses module. It does come with Python on systems
with a curses port.

For Windows, there's the Effbot's console module.
http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm

Or go to plan B: Use a Tkinter or other GUI interface's text
widget.

 

[Ghirai]

The answer depends on your chosen platform. Python hasn't got a
cross-platform console library as one of its included batteries.

First try the curses module. It does come with Python on systems
with a curses port.

For Windows, there's the Effbot's console module.
http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm

Or go to plan B: Use a Tkinter or other GUI interface's text
widget.

Forgot to say, i don't need it to work on windows

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

I need to write a console application.

Why not just use VT100 escape sequences directly? Terminal emulators don't
support anything else.

 

[Laurent Pointal]

Hello list,

I need to write a console application.

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?
Or any other similar libraries?

Thanks.

I have some links here:
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python.html#liens-graph-curses

A+

Laurent.

 

[Ben Finney]

Are there any wrappers around curses/ncurses?

Python has its own 'curses' module in the standard library of course.

<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses>

That's if you want to work directly with the curses functionality,
which is rather low-level.

Or any other similar libraries?

The library that I always think of when I think "Python ncurses
wrapper" is:

Urwid is a console user interface library for Python.

<URL:http://excess.org/urwid/>

Available as a package (e.g. 'python-urwid') in most GNU/Linux
distributions, or you can install it from the download link.