2026-10-12 13:39 UTC
Curses is a Python standard library module (for those who like me have never had anything to do with Python).
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@brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-12 14:08
Actually, curses is much older than Python. It’s a generic library to allow standardized output on non-standardized text terminals. If you see text based user interfaces on Posix systems, you can be 99% sure that it’s based on curses (or its successor ncurses). Developed for C in the late 1970s, it now has bindings for dozens of languages from Ada to Zig
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@Malgas@beehaw.org 2026-10-12 14:32
Not just Python. It’s a terminal control library for Unix-like systems (originally BSD, but widely ported).
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@Venator@lemmy.nz 2026-10-12 14:41
What’s imagemagic?