Python + ncurses problem

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How do you display with python+ncurses all those slick looking lines and blocks that you
can do easily with DOS ?

I try with

scr.addch(5,5,chr(221))

(half-thick block) but on the Mandrake 8.0 console I
get the correct character with white backgroud and black foreground attribute, not the one
I set. With the 80x25 console I get blinking attribute.

[paradox]

I haven't done any curses programming, but from what I can see this is the site you need.

http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/curses/node7.html

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This is a rough idea of what the function should look like, atleast in my mind, for which I have just woke up so I could be totally off, especially since I"ve never used curses.

import curses

def main():
   
   stdscr = curses.initscr()

   stdscr.start_color()

    if stdscr.has_color():

       curses.initpair(1, curses.COLOR_RED, 
                           curses.COLOR_WHITE)
       stdscr.addstr(0,0,chr(221),curses.COLOR_PAIR(1))

    else:
       print "Sorry your terminal is not capable of displaying\
              color"

main()

See if that does anything....I don't know if it will or not! I am at work otherwise I would try it out for ya!

Aragorn

[paradox]

Nice to have another Python programmer around here! hehe

Aragorn

[absolute]

well it didn't work Aragorn, could it be Mandrake 8's termcap anomality
And'bout the py-howto, thx that what exactly what I'm reading while posting this.

Python still a very cool languange though
8)

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well it didn't work Aragorn, could it be Mandrake 8's termcap anomality
And'bout the py-howto, thx that what exactly what I'm reading while posting this.

Python still a very cool languange though
8)

Sorry it didn't work. I am not sure what to tell you, I'll look into it some more. I didn't try it on a Linux box yet, but it worked fine in Winblows(only thing I had available to me at the time). I'll toy around with it when I get home and get my Redhat Box set up!

Aragorn

[JimH]

Another link from IBM developer works on Python programming. This one is about programming with Ncurses. Also has some links to more infromation.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...l-python6.html

Jim H