On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Tony Cappellini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm maintaining a framework of tests which are run on a diskless Linux > client, in character mode (no graphical desktop). > > The tests often print out a lot of info, which scrolls off the screen. > > I'd like to add a 1-2 line no-scroll-area at the top of the screen, so as to > print a message which indicates the progress of the current test. > > I am thinking about using the Python curses module for this, unless someone > would suggest an alternative solution,
See the recent discussion of urwid for discussion of a similar problem. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/50500/ If the tests are based on unittest or assert, you might be interested in nose; it suppresses output for tests that pass. http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/wiki/NoseFeatures Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
