In a message of Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:30:25 -0700, Peter Brittain writes: >I have recently been working on a terminal/console animation package >(https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics). Beyond the high-level >animation methods/objects it provides, it also needed to be cross-platform and >and simple to install with pip (including any dependencies). > >This cross-platform requirement meant I needed a curses equivalent for >Windows. This appears to have been a regular issue over the years and I've >looked around at previous answers on the web and this newsgroup. Now while >there's some pretty neat stuff out there, nothing actually gave me everything >I needed. > >1) colorama only gives you colours and cursor positioning, but no input, >resizing or screen-scraping options. > >2) blessings/blessed provide better (but incomplete) APIs than the curses >package, but no Windows support unless you use colorama (which is still >limited as above). > >3) console (from effbot.org) is a native installer and so fails the pip test. >It does however show direct use of the win32 API is a tenable approach. > >4) The other packages I found were either dead projects or relied on a native >installation of an open source implementation of curses - with no pip install >option available. > >I therefore started writing a consistent wrapper API (the Screen object) that >uses the curses package on Unix variants and pywin32 to access the Windows >console API. > >Over the last few months I've rounded out the features and proved that >asciimatics works identically on Linux (various distros), OSX and Windows >7-10. I know that there are still some rough edges due to the history of the >project and so I've been deprecating old APIs in preparation for creating a >completely clean API when I create the next major (v2.x) release. > >I suspect that it could be even better though, so am looking for feedback and >ideas from the community - both on the high-level animation features and the >low-level cross-platform terminal API. > >Is there something you can see that could be usefully improved? All feedback >welcome. >--
Did you try https://pypi.python.org/pypi/UniCurses ? Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
