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| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | blessings/__init__.py | 3 |
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@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ this time with Blessings:: term = Terminal() with term.location(0, term.height): - print 'This is {under}underlined{normal}!'.format(under=term.underline, - normal=term.no_underline) + print 'This is {t.underline}underlined{t.no_underline}!'.format(t=term) It's short, it's obvious, and it keeps all those nasty ``tigetstr()`` and ``tparm()`` calls out of your code. It also acts intelligently when somebody @@ -237,8 +236,8 @@ Shopping List ============= There are decades of legacy tied up in terminal interaction, so attention to -detail and behavior of edge cases make a difference. Consider which of these -features matter to you as you shop for a terminal library. Blessings does them +detail and behavior in edge cases make a difference. Consider which of these +features matter to you as you shop for a terminal library. Blessings has them all. * Output to any file-like object, not just stdout. @@ -254,6 +253,13 @@ all. * Keep a minimum of internal state, so you can feel free to mix and match with calls to curses or whatever other terminal libraries you like. +Blessings does not provide... + +* Native color support on the Windows command prompt. However, it should work + when used in concert with colorama_. + +.. _colorama: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama/0.2.4 + Bugs ==== @@ -270,7 +276,7 @@ Version History not a terminal. * Added the ``is_a_tty`` attribute for telling whether the output stream is a terminal. - * Added sugar for the remaining simple formatting capabilities. + * Added sugar for the remaining interesting string capabilities. * Let ``location()`` operate on just an x *or* y coordinate. 1.0 diff --git a/blessings/__init__.py b/blessings/__init__.py index 898a947..5adbeb0 100644 --- a/blessings/__init__.py +++ b/blessings/__init__.py @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ class Terminal(object): # output is redirected. init_descriptor = (sys.__stdout__.fileno() if stream_descriptor is None else stream_descriptor) + # Make things like tigetstr() work. Explicit args make setupterm() # work even when -s is passed to nosetests. Lean toward sending # init sequences to the stream if it has a file descriptor, and @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ class Terminal(object): # somewhere. setupterm(kind or environ.get('TERM', 'unknown'), init_descriptor) + # Cache capability codes, because IIRC tigetstr requires a # conversation with the terminal. [Now I can't find any evidence of # that.] @@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ class Terminal(object): # like "red" and "bg_green" are probably easier. color='setaf', bg_color='setab', + reset_colors='op', # oc doesn't work on my OS X terminal. normal='sgr0', reverse='rev', |