[Urwid] The missing part of my last mail

[Ian Ward]

Rebecca Breu wrote:

> On the web page you write that one needs Python 2.1 or higher in order to use
> urwid. But when I ran my program with Python 2.2.0, I had to do some slight
> modifications to the urwid code:
> 
> 1.) The curses module doen't recognize window resizing. Thus, cuses.KEY_RESIZE
>      doesn't exist. (in curses_display.get_input)

Really?  I thought python >= 2.1 had support for resizing.

  Python 2.1.3+ (#1, Sep  5 2005, 22:16:03)
  [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-4ubuntu6)] on linux2
  Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import curses
  >>> curses.KEY_RESIZE
  410

It seems to work for me.  Maybe the version of Python you're running is 
linked against the curses library, not the ncurses library.

The raw_display module should work regardless of which curses is linked 
against Python.

> 2.) Old Python doesn't like "<string> in <string>", only "<char> in <string>".
>     In escape.process_keyqueue (line 257), I changed
> 
>     if run[0] == "esc" or "meta " in run[0]:
> 
>     to
> 
>     if run[0] == "esc" or run[0].find("meta " ) >= 0:

You're right.  Thank you!  I've fixed that for the next release.

Ian Ward