Curses - Win/dos

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Mar 11 17:53:16 EST 2003


>>> I was trying to play around with curses .. and the docs say to
>>> import curses (ofcourse) and run a few methods to setup the
>>> screen and such..
>> 
>> curses is not included in the standard pure windows build of python,
>> main reason is that there are not much curses libraries out there for
>> pure windows (haven't found when looking around, a while ago though).
> 
> There's an implimentation called pdcurses that's available for
> Win32.  I've never used it, and have no idea if it's compatible
> with the Python curses package.  AFAIK, there isn't a Win32
> port of ncurses [the curses package used by Linux].

FWIW:

  pdcurses: http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net
   ncurses: http://dickey.his.com/ncurses

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