[Urwid] urwid + circuits = irc client

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:02:11AM +1000, James Mills wrote:

> $ hg clone http://hg.softcircuit.com.au/projects/circuits/
> $ cd circuits
> $ python setup.py develop
> $ python setup.py develop

I did :

% cd /home/nicolas/urwid
% hg clone http://hg.softcircuit.com.au/projects/circuits/ 
% cd circuits
% mkdir bin
% PYTHONPATH=/home/nicolas/urwid/circuits/bin:$PYTHONPATH
% python setup.py develop --install-dir ./bin
% python setup.py develop --install-dir ./bin
% cd /home/nicolas/urwid
% cp /tmp/circ.py .

And I run :

% python circ.py

Then, I have the main window asking for a command at prompt "None> ".

Typing something begining with a slash '/' does nothing, including
'/help'.
Everything else gives this error :
% python circ.py

ERROR: 'PollingListWalker' object has no attribute 'append'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "circ.py", line 260, in main
    mainWindow.poll()
  File "circ.py", line 133, in poll
    self.processCommand(self.input.get_edit_text())
  File "circ.py", line 204, in processCommand
    self.lines.append(urwid.Text(
AttributeError: 'PollingListWalker' object has no
attribute 'append'

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It may be related to my urwid's version as the 0.9.8.3 isn't in portage
yet (Gentoo) :
% eix --installed urwid
* dev-python/urwid
     Available versions:  ~0.9.7.1 (~)0.9.8.1 {examples}
     Installed versions:  Version: 0.9.8.1
                          Date:    16:53:31 30.09.2008
                          USE:     examples
     Best versions/slot:  (~)0.9.8.1
     Homepage:            http://excess.org/urwid/
     Description:         Urwid is a curses-based user interface library
for Python.
     License:             LGPL-2.1
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I haven't read your code nor tried the good urwid version at that time.

% python --version
Python 2.5.2
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colas Sebrecht