[Tutor] Curses example on Linux?

[Alan G]

>>    I have copied the following example from "Learning to Program by 
>> Alan
>>  Gauld (section: Event Driven Programming)". To run it on Linux
>>  (Redhat 8.0; Python 2.4) the tutorial says to replace 'msvcrt'
>>  with 'curses.stdscr'.

I thought I'd fixed that fault.

The sequence should be:

import curses
mscvrt = curses.initscr()
mscvcrt.getch()


I will make the changes and upload the fixed file as soon as possible.


Thanks for bringing it up.

Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld

>
>
> Hi Hossein,
>
>
> According to:
>
>    http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/
>
>
> Alan probably meant to say to replace:
>
> ######
> import msvcrt
> ######
>
> with:
>
> ######
> import curses
> msvcrt = curses.initscr()
> ######
>
> as a quick hack to replace 'msvcrt' with something that works on 
> Linux.
>
>
> It sounded that you wanted to look at other examples of curses
> programming?  A long time ago, I wrote a quick-and-dirty demo 
> program that
> uses curses here:
>
>    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/circularwriting.py
>
>
> Good luck to you!
>
>
>