[Tutor] curses.wrapper() question

[Alan Gauld]

No help on the curses wrapper stuff, in fact its existence 
was news to me! However...

> #### Begin Code
> 
> def newWindow():
> begin_x = 20 ; begin_y = 7
> height = 5 ; width = 40
> win = curses.newwin(height, width, begin_y, begin_x)
> return

You need to indent the function body(but that might just be 
an email wobbly) More significantly you don't need the empty 
return statement. By default Python functions return None.

Also you might be better putting x,y,h and w in as parameters 
rather than variables. This will allow you to specify them when 
you call newWindow. Like this:

def newWindow(begin_x=20, begin_y=7, height=5,width=40):
    win = curses.newwin(height, width, begin_y, begin_x)

You can then call this like:

newWin()   # use the defaults specified
newWin(7,5,3,4)   # a very small window
newWin(width=70)  # defaults except for width

> for y in range(0,100):
> for x in range(0,100):
> try: pad.addch(y,x, ord('a') + (x*x+y*y) % 26)
> except curses.error: pass

Again I assume mail is messing up the necessary indentation?

HTH even if not with your real problem,

Alan G.