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5. macconsole -- Think C's console package

Availability: Macintosh.

This module is available on the Macintosh, provided Python has been built using the Think C compiler. It provides an interface to the Think console package, with which basic text windows can be created.

options

An object allowing you to set various options when creating windows, see below.

C_ECHO

C_NOECHO

C_CBREAK

C_RAW

Options for the setmode method. C_ECHO and C_CBREAK enable character echo, the other two disable it, C_ECHO and C_NOECHO enable line-oriented input (erase/kill processing, etc).

copen ()

Open a new console window. Return a console window object.

fopen (fp)

Return the console window object corresponding with the given file object. fp should be one of sys.stdin, sys.stdout or sys.stderr.

• 5.1 macconsole options object
• 5.2 console window object

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