On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Katt wrote: > In my search for ways to change the color of text printed to the screen I > came across discussions about curses. > > Some documentation indicate it as a module that will translate commands to > control screen output. Is this right? Also, why do they call it curses?
Curses is an ancient library for handling full-screen control easily. This is from back in the days when you typically connected to the computer using some sort of ASCII terminal, and graphical user interfaces were far from common. The name is a humorous reference to the "cursor" on the screen which this package controls for the application, moving it around (and curses even contains some pretty sophisticated code for calculating how to retraw fields, windows, etc. in ASCII characters using the least possible transmitted characters in each case--a boon when using a slow modem). If you want to change text attributes or set up data entry screens (or information displays) on a plain text terminal window or system console, it's worth looking at curses. -- Steve Willoughby | Using billion-dollar satellites st...@alchemy.com | to hunt for Tupperware. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
