Curses and Windows under Python

Posted by Nick Loadholtes on 6/16/2004 filed in Python, Software Development

Remember how I was talking about how easy it was to use curses and Python? Well there is one little catch: Its easy as long as you don’t try to run it under windows.

Python has no native support for curses under windows. There are a few packages to try and bridge this gap, but they are not complete (and by that I mean as complete as the unix Python curses package). This little revelation was a surprise for me when I tried to run my sliding puzzle on a windows box yesterday. While the Flangy.com package looks good, it doesn’t support the curses.ascii module. :(

Oh well, I guess the program will have to be unix only. At least until I get the gumption to go and do a GUI version of it.

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