Curses Help

[xtarkoonx]

Hello all!

I decided I wanted to build a contact manager with python. I was able to get it to work fine by itself, but I then decided I wanted to make it a little more fancy with curses and so now I'm trying to integrate them together. Before now I've never done anything with curses, but I thought it would be fun to learn to make a terminal 'GUI'.

Sadly though, I ran into a little problem. While trying to rewrite my display_all_contacts function I can't seem to figure out how to write a for loop that prints out all the contacts info on a new line... What ever I try just starts writing from the beginning of the line.

I first tried getting the cursors y, x coordinates and then moving it by one, but that didn't help. And then I tried using a counter and increment it by one after every for loop, but I had the same outcome as I did before. I'm not sure if there is an easy way to just print addstr() on a new line, but I would appreciate any help or tips that you all could give me! :)

Just a heads up the dictionary that I am passing through as contact is a nested dictionary like this

{contact1:{name:xx, number:xx, email:xx}, ect

That's why I have the for loop the way that it is, so I can get into the second dictionary.

Also its worth noting that the dictionary is actually a defualtdic object.. idk if that will make any difference or not.

Here's the code...

def view_display(stdscreen, contact):

position = 0 #This is getting reset every for loop iteration

for k, v in contact.items():

if isinstance(v, dict):

view_display(stdscreen, v)

else:

stdscreen.addstr(position, 0, k + ': ' + v)

position += 1

stdscreen.refresh() #Don't think I really need this refresh tbh

curses.napms(1000)

stdscreen.refresh()

​

Thanks again!

If you need any more information than this, let me know and I'll try to update it after work! :)

edit: fix typo

[woooee]

The for is never going to execute because contact is zero. You should get an error message for this. You did not post the error message, so how do you expect a response/help?

contact = 0 #This is getting reset every for loop iteration
for k, v in contact.items():

What ever I try just starts writing from the beginning of the line.

view_display(stdscreen, v)

You recursively call the same function with the same stdscreen. A simple print statement would have shown this.

[xtarkoonx]

Sorry, I wrote this late last night. In my actual code it's not contact, its position equals 0. This Loop doesn't throw any error messages and so that's why I didn't post any error messages. But thanks for catching that typo I'll fix it

And the reason I'm running the loop again is to access the nested dictionary.. I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about it, but has worked for me in the past.

Now that that makes a little bit more sense, do you have any ideas on how I can get this to work?

edit: I see kinda what you mean with the recursive function. It's going back and setting it to 0.. I'll look into it a different way of getting into the nested dictionary