On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:32:01 -0800, Flavio codeco coelho wrote: > I have a program that uses pythondialog for its UI. > > Pythondialog is a wrapper of the shell dialog and xdialog libs. > > But I would like for it to switch between using Dialog ( when X is not > available ) and xdialog (when X is available) > > So my question is: how can I check for the availability of X? i.e., > How will my program know if its running in a text only console or in > console window over X? > > thanks, > > Flávio
If there's interest, I could make available my "pdialog" module, which is also a wrapper around *dialog, but uses X when available, and curses when it is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list