On 2021-01-14, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > It seems that curses does not allow you to mix raw stdin/stdout with > its calls. (got that idea from a quick web search).
That is definitely the case. Output in curses is done to an in-memory virtual terminal screen. Optimized output is then sent (at some point later) to update the physical terminal with any changes made in the virtual terminal since the last update. If you want to use ncurses, you can't mess with the physical terminal behind its back and expect anything to work. > If all you want is simple things like bold and clear I'd just use the > ANSI escape sequences directly. Or use a terminfo library: https://github.com/DirectXMan12/py-terminfo It _may_ be possible to use ncurses to get the terminfo strings required for various functions without actually having ncurses to any I/O, but I've never tried that... -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
