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Re: Termcap /curses

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Fri, 15 Oct 93 09:47:00 PDT

| Note that in principle you could do it all in Python -- with the
| (optional) fcntl module you can make the necessary ioctl calls and
| then just read the termcap file and generate the proper calls.

You would have to re-implement the mapping from generic terminfo/termcap
strings to actual escape sequences including padding; reimplement some form
of curses etc. etc. Not that it couldn't be done, but I think you're getting
into more than you ever bargained for...

-Jaap-