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----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: max baseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hmm but now i get a error on the same line scr.addch(max_x/2, max_y/ > 2, str(population)[0]) > _curses.error addch() returned ERR Thats because you are writing outside the screen boundaries. My mistake, the order of the params is y,x not x,y so it should have been: scr.addchr(max_y/2,max_x/2, str(population)[0]) Apologies, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor