This repository contains my ports of the C ncurses examples from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/index.html using Python and its curses module.

The C examples didn't have a license, so I am releasing these Python ports under the GPLv3 license. If anyone knows this to be wrong, please let me know and I will correct it.

I have only ported examples 1 to 17 inclusive, as the subsequent examples make use of the menu and forms libraries and these are not exposed in the Python curses module.

Several of the C examples use F1 to exit the application. However, in many terminal emulators such as Gnome Terminal and Konsole F1 will launch the terminal emulator help leaving the example application running. I have therefore changed the exit key to F2 in those examples.

Homepage: https://github.com/aslicedbanjo/python_ncurses_examples

As of January 2016, the ports have been updated to work with both Python 2.x and Python 3.x. In the course of making the updates, I have improved PEP8 compliance, reduced PyLint violations, and made some of the examples more Pythonic. Making the un-Pythonic parts Pythonic is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)

Previously, example 11 (which demonstrates mouse click events) simply didn't work, with clicks being ignored. I have now fixed this problem and it works correctly. I assume this was an error in the original C version.

All Python files are Copyright (C) Dan Jacobs 2013 - 2016, 2020 under the GNU GPL v3 license. See the file LICENSE for more details.

None as such. Just clone the repository (or download the zip and unpack it), and run

python exampleNN.py

in the top-level directory.

Example 5 requires a single command line argument, which should be a path to a C file.

See the corresponding C example from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/index.html

A couple of the examples have small problems, which are detailed below.

Example 5: reads a C file and echoes it back to stdout making comments bold. In some terminals, lines above the current line disappear. The C version behaves the same way.

Example 16: there is a bug when resizing a window, it is not redrawn immediately.

In either case, I haven't been able to track down the problem. Any fixes will be gratefully accepted.