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by: Mats Wichmann - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:39 UTC

On 4/24/23 10:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2023-04-24, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> 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
>

I guess it's also worth mentioning that Python curses doesn't work out
of the box on Windows - because the actual curses library isn't commonly
present on Windows. It's not hard to get hold of builds (check PyPI) but
that means it's no longer "standard".

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