Mario Figueiredo added the comment: This patch is a huge improvement over the current situation, which is we don't have a cross-platform curses implementation in the standard library.
The alternatives listed by Mark aren't sufficient. For the two reasons given below: - The implementation at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses does not support unicode characters, which is a big limitation in today's general computing tasks. - The UniCurses module isn't compatible with the curses standard lib implementation since it wraps curses/pdcurses and does not provide python own wrappers like the ability of addstr to accept encoded byte strings. This essentially makes UniCurses a 3rd-party library requirements regardless of the operating system, which is always nice to have but does not help the batteries included principles behind python standard library. Conclusion: Please implement this patch ASAP. It's been many years since it was made available. It works, it passes all tests and we all benefit if we close this python cross-compatibility issue. ---------- nosy: +Mario Figueiredo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2889> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
