[Tutor] Using the curses module (or a better solution)

[Kent Johnson]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm maintaining a framework of tests which are run on a diskless Linux
> client, in character mode (no graphical desktop).
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> The tests often print out a lot of info, which scrolls off the screen.
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> I'd like to add a 1-2 line no-scroll-area at the top of the screen, so as to
> print a message which indicates the progress of the current test.
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> I am thinking about using the Python curses module for this, unless someone
> would suggest an alternative solution,

See the recent discussion of urwid for discussion of a similar problem.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/50500/

If the tests are based on unittest or assert, you might be interested
in nose; it suppresses output for tests that pass.
http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/wiki/NoseFeatures

Kent