Re: Termcap /curses

lance@markv.com
Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:23:02 PDT

> | Note that in principle you could do it all in Python -- with the
> | (optional) fcntl module you can make the necessary ioctl calls and
> | then just read the termcap file and generate the proper calls.
>
> You would have to re-implement the mapping from generic terminfo/termcap
> strings to actual escape sequences including padding; reimplement some form
> of curses etc. Not that it couldn't be done, but I think you're getting
> into more than you ever bargained for...

Not only this, but the curses packages also take into account terminals
that have strange behavior.. I can see a LOT of recoding trying to
make a PYTHON version of curses instead of just creating an interface to
it.. Also, by recreating a python version, I would not have
any of the menu and form libraries available that come with my
curses libraries..

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