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Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python?

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  Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python? eclectic959@gmail.com - 2015-12-03 04:30 -0800
    Re: Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-03 13:43 +0000
      Re: Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python? eclectic959@gmail.com - 2015-12-03 09:11 -0800

#99956 — Are there any plans to support nCurses 6.0 with Python?

The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0.

With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the current 8 or 16.

I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline) partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes.

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#99958

On 03/12/2015 12:30, eclectic959@gmail.com wrote:
> The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0.
>
> With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the current 8 or 16.
>
> I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline) partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes.
>

Work is all ready being done to support building Python with ncurses6, 
see https://bugs.python.org/issue25720.  Whether this alone meets your 
needs or an enhancement request on the bug tracker against 3.6 is 
required I'm really not qualified to say.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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#99975

On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:44:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 12:30, eclectic959@gmail.com wrote:
> > The GNU Project has announced the release of nCurses 6.0.
> >
> > With it, Python curses would be able to support 256 colors instead of the current 8 or 16.
> >
> > I've discovered that a pre-release of Fedora 24 includes ncurses 6.0. It is not usable by Python programs, such as my character-mode emulation of pixel-mode WxPython (available as "tsWxGTUI_PyVx" on GitHub) which creates a 71 color palette but will not work (its has been disabled) with the existing 16-color curses because text attributes (such as underline) partially overlay the foreground-background color-pair attributes.
> >
> 
> Work is all ready being done to support building Python with ncurses6, 
> see https://bugs.python.org/issue25720.  Whether this alone meets your 
> needs or an enhancement request on the bug tracker against 3.6 is 
> required I'm really not qualified to say.
> 
> -- 
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
> 
> Mark Lawrence

ncurses6 provides both an application binary interface for ncurses6.0 an one for ncurses5.0. Perhaps it will take an enhancement request to adopt the ABI 6.0 that su[prts 256 colors.

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