UniCurses is a wrapper for Python 2.x/3.x that provides a unified set of Curses functions on all platforms (MS Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X) with syntax close to that of the original NCurses. To provide functionality on MS Windows it wraps PDCurses.
Features
- Provides a unified set of Curses functions for all platforms, including MS Windows.
- Wraps Public Domain Curses (PDCurses) using ctypes when used on Microsoft Windows.
- Compatible with Python 2.x and 3.x series.
- Uses syntax and function names similar to the original NCurses functions.
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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Follow UniCurses for Python
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Simply running the provided exe did not work. Apparently you can just do `pip install windows-curses`, and it works mostly fine? So this project seems obsolete.
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fails to run on python 3.5.4 Fatal error: can't find pdcurses.dll for linking, make sure PDCurses v3.4+ is in the same folder as UniCurses if you want to use UniCurses on a win32 platform. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\david000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\unicurses.py", line 43, in <module> import curses # see if the platform supports curses natively File "C:\Users\david000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in <module> from _curses import * ImportError: No module named '_curses' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\david000\OneDrive\sockets udp python\udp receive.py", line 5, in <module> import unicurses File "C:\Users\david000\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\unicurses.py", line 54, in <module> raise ImportError("UniCurses initialization error - pdcurses.dll not found.") ImportError: UniCurses initialization error - pdcurses.dll not found. >>>
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Fails to install (Application Error) under Windows 10.