curses-like library for cross-platform console app in python

Question

hi there,

i'm looking into developing a console-app in python which should be able to run under windows as well as linux. for this, i'd really like to use a high-level console library like curses. however, as far as i know, curses is not available on windows. what other options do i have? unfortunately, using cygwin under windows is not an option ...

thanks for your help!

Answer 1

PDCurses works on Windows, but I don't know any Python wrapper. I wonder whether the curses module could be implemented on Windows with PDCurses?

Answer 2

develop two interfaces for your program, a text console ui and a graphical ui. Make the console one work only on linux. Nobody on windows uses text console apps.

Answer 3

There is a wcurses. I've never tried it but it may meet your needs. It sounds like it doesn't have full curses compatibility, but may be close enough. Also it might not be using the DOS terminal, but opening a GUI window and drawing monospaced text inside.

Other windows text mode options are:

• The console module;
• wconio -- based on Borland's C conio library.

I believe both are windows only.