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The Python curses module provides an interface to the curses library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling.

The Python curses module provides an interface to the curses library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/curses.html

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Python curses box() is made of 6s and 0s

So I ran into an interesting error/bug, I don't know which yet, but when running my Python curses script using the box() method I got the following result: The desired and expected out put is to be a normal box... made of lines. Here is the code for…
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Display colored ascii art in terminal using Python curses

I want to display a colored ascii art in a terminal (for e.g. windows cmd) using python-curses. I wrote something really basic like this : import time import curses stdscr = curses.initscr() curses.noecho() curses.cbreak() stdscr.keypad(True) f =…
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pip install windows-curser displaying error

I wanted to install curses to do a project on menu making system using Python. When I tried to import curses in jupyter, I received an error telling me there is no package such as curser... So I tried to install the curser using pip install. This is…
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Python curses doesn't seem to work with more than 256 colour pairs

I want to use 256 colours background and 256 colours foreground for my application using curses. This requires 65536 colour pairs: which seems to be supported. curses.COLOR_PAIRS reports 65536. This is my code: def main(stdscr): …
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Python (or Curses) is saving key input for the next check

I'm unsure if this is the cause of Python or Curses. Whenever a user presses a key, that input is saved into a "queue". The next time the program asks for user input, it will accept whatever is in that queue. I'm wondering if there is a way to…
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curses: how to find the height of written text area

I created a pad in curses then I filled it with a bunch of text. the height of the pad is constant, however, I would like to know how many lines there are in the written part of the pad or the height of it. rows, cols = std.getmaxyx() text_win =…
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How Do You Display an External Program From Within Curses?

I've fallen in love with Vim and a lot of other terminal-based programs. I'm trying to write a shell in Python, using curses. I'd like to have a list of tabs, with background processes running in them (like htop and a terminal-based network…
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How to detect a character in a specific coordinate using curses?

I'm currently working on a roguelike game and trying to figure out collision detection for walls. I currently have the player being drawn at a specific y, x coordinate in the terminal but I'm having trouble figuring out how I can use this to detect…
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Can you use the python input function in a curses window - curses.newwin()? Curses - Python

I am currently using getch, getkey and the getstr functions from the curses module and have found them not user-friendly. Why? They are all slower to detect a keypress than the python input() function. You have to hold the key down for longer than…
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Even after installing curses(pip install windows-curses) i am getting the error (curses function returned NULL)

import curses from curses import KEY_RIGHT, KEY_LEFT, KEY_UP, KEY_DOWN from random import randint curses.initscr() win = curses.newwin(20, 60, 0, 0) win.keypad(1) curses.noecho() curses.curs_set(0) win.border(0) win.nodelay(1) this is the error…
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Why doesn't the window update in curses?

I took this nice example of a simple curses application with a list. I wanted to make it scrollable, so I changed the part of the list that gets shown. However, I can scroll down and back up, but the contents shown doesn't change (only the…
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Python Curses - How would one space out multiple menu options horizontally?

I can easily print a list of menu options vertically in the terminal like so: menu = ["Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4"] for idx, element in enumerate(menu): y = 1 + idx x = 1 stdscr.addstr(y, x, element) This outputs the…
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Cannot stop arrows keys from echoing to the console in Python with the curses library

Below is my code. I'm trying to make a simple text editor and I tried to make sure that arrows keys wouldn't print to the console but it still does. Any help pls? import curses text = [] def main(screen): curses.curs_set(1) …
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curses wrapper in multithread does not restore screen after quiting

I'm trying to develop a multithreaded program with a TUI interface . Basically I have a main Loop deciding what to do and some task (like the TUI or reading data from a queue and processing it ) are running in separate thread . My TUI is using…
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Python curses draw nvim-style gui cursor vertical bar

How to draw the cursor as a vertical bar with python curses library?
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