Platf. indep. console lib.

[Scott]

Hi,

There is an slang module which wraps the slang library.  It's available
for Unix and Win32 though I haven't had the time to actually use it
yet.  Here is an ftp site for it: 
ftp://quasar.ipa.nw.ru/pub/avv/Python/pyslang .  If you give it a try,
let me know how it turns out!

Scott

"Matti Johannes Kärki" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It seems that there isn't any platform independent console (text graphics)
> library available in core Python distribution (or am I wrong?). Is there
> some specific reason for that? As far as I can tell, it should be quite
> easy to implement one with NCurses (*nix) and Conio (Windows: Watcom and
> Borland directly, Visual C with Win32API?), other platforms, I don't know.
> 
> I know that there is some kind of NCurses module for Python but I would
> like to see something simple (such as Conio) which also would be supported
> under Linux and Win32 in core Python package. It would be nice to know
> that when I install the Python package to the computer, I'll be able to
> write and run Python programs with text graphics user interfaces. I know
> that Tkinter rules, but there has been some situations when I've been
> missing console library with move/gotoxy, addch/putch and getch (and with
> certainty that my programs will work both under Win32 and Linux terminal).
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
>     Matti