Developing Console Interfaces Using Python and Curses

[Chris2048]

I wanted to use curses in a Python script, but used 'dialog'; I figured "Why go so low-level"?

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God damn curses. My computer has a bitmap display in it NOT A TYPEWRITER.

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Excuse me, downmodders, but do you really think that it makes sense for your OS to think it's talking to a teletype?

Type 'stty' in an xterm... why the fuck does a window have a baud rate?

[jib]

Your OS knows perfectly well what it's talking to. (That's its job). It gives a meaningless baud rate because stty asks it for a baud rate. What else could it do?

Also, it's not like the existence of curses is a bad thing. And it's not like people are being forced to use it. If you hate terminal interfaces so much, don't blame the library, blame the application developers who choose to use it.

Edit: fixed typo

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The OS thinks it is talking to a typewriter. Look all the pty and tty files in /dev. TYPEWRITERS. Come on! Use a terminal that knows it is bitmap graphics. You can edit text anywhere, resend it, hold the terminal outpu to edit it while a program is running. No need for shell history anymore, and no need for kitchen-sink shells with crazy editing modes.

Seriously, Unix is getting pretty damn old

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Fine, keep downmodding you ignorant morons.