Re: Is npyscreen still alive?
On 4/24/23 11:32, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards wrote: The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to distribute. Right now, the application is a single .py file you just copy to the destination machine and run. It supports command-line use and a Tk GUI. I can add an ncurses "CUI" without having to either adopt a more complex bundling mechanism that requires it to be "installed" or require that users install dependencies via pip/apt/yum/whatever. However... I just realized that Python's curses support is missing two huge chunks: both menu and form support are not there. I guess that explains why people feel the need to write high-level UI wrappers for Python curses: the high level stuff that curses does support is missing from the Python bindings. Adding a curses UI for my app might not be feasible after all... -- Grant That's because the Gods Of Ancient Internets knew that all you ever really need is VT220 escape sequences ... unless you are one of the heathens that still program in HLLAPI on 327x machinery (I kid, I kid, NO one needs that pain ...) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Is npyscreen still alive?
On 4/24/23 09:14, Stefan Ram wrote: Grant Edwards writes: The other big advantage of an ncurses program is that since curses support is in the std library, a curses app is simpler to distribute. IIRC curses is not in the standard library /on Windows/. I miss a platform independent (well, at least for Linux, Mac, and Windows) package with curses features in the standard library. That's correct (or was, last time I looked). For this reason, I resorted to using tkinter for the twander file browser. While it works, the code needs a complete rethink and to be written to be Python3 compatible. Perhaps when/if that happens, something like Textual need serious consideration. tkinter works, but is showing its age. So a fresher look without all the burden of X and or requiring a browser, while also giving you that option is appealing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: any author you find very good has written a book on Python?
On 9/5/22 21:22, Meredith Montgomery wrote: I never read a book on Python. I'm looking for a good one now. I just searched the web for names such as Charles Petzold, but it looks like he never wrote a book on Python. I also searched for Peter Seibel, but he also never did. I also tried to search for Richard Heathfield. (I took a look at his ``C Unleashed'' once and I liked what I saw.) This is how I search for books --- I go through the authors first. Charles Petzold, for instance, anything he writes is worth reading it. (Have you given his Annotated Turing a shot? It's a very nice read.) So that's my request --- any author you find very good has written a book on Python? It could be for in a certain specific context. For instance, I also searched for Hadley Wickham in the hope that he could have written a data-science-type of book using Python. I like his writing a lot, but he also only seems to have written only for the R language. Thank you! David Beazley -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
