On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:44:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 12:30, [email protected] wrote:
> > The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0.
> >
> > With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the
> > current 8 or 16.
> >
> > I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is
> > not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of
> > pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates
> > a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the
> > existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline)
> > partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes.
> >
>
> Work is all ready being done to support building Python with ncurses6,
> see https://bugs.python.org/issue25720. Whether this alone meets your
> needs or an enhancement request on the bug tracker against 3.6 is
> required I'm really not qualified to say.
>
> --
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
>
> Mark Lawrence
ncurses6 provides both an application binary interface for ncurses6.0 an one
for ncurses5.0. Perhaps it will take an enhancement request to adopt the ABI
6.0 that su[prts 256 colors.
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