ncurses programming

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-26, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2005-09-26, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Py Docs:   http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.html
>>>
>>> This document suggests that Python+ncurses won't work on windows.
>>> What's the reason for this?
>>
>> Could it be that ncurses doesn't work on Windows? At least, it
>> didn't last time I looked. There was a curses library for
>> Windows, but you'll have to google for it.
>
> I think there used to be something called pdcurses that 
> supposedly worked under windows.  That was quite a while ago, I
> never tried it, and I may be misremembering the name.

 http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/

> I've no idea if there was a pdcurses module for python.

Apparently there was at one time:

 http://teyc.editthispage.com/filedownloads

A more recent reference:
 
 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2005-June/017763.html
 
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