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6.12 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays

Changed in version 1.6: Added support for the ncurses library and converted to a package.

The curses module provides an interface to the curses library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling.

While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, versions are available for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. This extension module is designed to match the API of ncurses, an open-source curses library hosted on Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.

See Also:

Module curses.ascii:

Utilities for working with ASCII characters, regardless of your locale settings.

Module curses.textpad:

Editable text widget for curses supporting Emacs-like bindings.

Module curses.wrapper:

Convenience function to ensure proper terminal setup and resetting on application entry and exit.

Curses Programming with Python ]

Tutorial material on using curses with Python, by Andrew Kuchling, is available on the Python Web site.

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• 6.12.1 Functions
• 6.12.2 Window Objects
• 6.12.3 Constants

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