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On 8/4/2014 3:24 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
> On 08/04/2014 11:53 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>>
>> I've never used the API from Python but random console access is
>> documented at
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms687404%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 
>>
>>
>
> Would using the API from Python involve doing the wrapping yourself or 
> do you know about an existing package for the job ?

I haven't used the API from Python. I haven't checked PyWin32 to see if 
it already wraps that API like it wraps so many other APIs. I haven't 
Googled using "python" and "WriteConsoleOutput" to see if other packages 
may exist to do the job. But these are the things that I would do if I 
had a need to write a program like yours, since I know that the console 
does, in fact, support random access.

>
> By the way (and off-topic), how would you do it on Linux?

Off topic? It is still about doing it using Python, no?

I believe that most Unix terminal emulators, which are used for running 
shells and command lines, support cursor controls, and I believe most of 
them have a mode that emulates the DEC VT-52 terminal, one of which I 
had physical access to at the "computer lab" at the university I 
attended so many years ago. The VT-52 defined escape sequences to move 
the cursor around on the screen, providing random access. Text-based, 
screen-oriented programs such as emacs leveraged such capabilities quite 
effectively.

There may be something better today, I haven't used Unix for a dozen 
years now, and the usage at that time was database development not 
text-based graphics. I've used Linux only on my web host, and a little 
experimentation on a local machine I installed it on here, until the 
machine died, and I didn't do any text-based graphics in either of those 
circumstances either.  So probably college was the last time I used 
text-based graphics, but that was using RSTS and DECsystem 20 (forget 
the name of the OS for that machine) on VT-52 terminals. But I've noted 
with amusement that the VT-52 (and later enhanced models) are still 
supported by Unix/Linux terminal emulators and X system.

Unix abstracts that cursor motion using "curses" and I believe there are 
curses implementations for Windows as well, but I've not attempted to 
use curses from Python on either Unix or Windows.


>
> Wolfgang
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cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 00:52 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 09:08 +1000
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2014-08-04 22:35 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 00:20 +0100
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-03 18:25 -0500
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  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-04 10:14 +1000
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-03 17:17 -0700
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-04 01:47 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-03 21:14 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-04 00:06 -0500
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 04:39 -0400
    Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 17:00 +0200
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-08-04 17:43 +0200
        Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 18:48 +0200
          Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 03:06 +1000
            Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 19:22 +0200
              Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-04 15:43 -0400
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        Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-04 22:24 +0200
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            Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wiktor <look@signature.invalid> - 2014-08-05 11:39 +0200
      Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-05 06:11 +1000
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  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 02:46 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 02:53 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-08-04 12:24 +0200
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> - 2014-08-04 05:33 -0500
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 11:04 -0700
  Re: cmd.exe on WIndows - problem with displaying some Unicode characters Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> - 2014-08-04 11:15 -0700
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