Re: Using ncurses only for terminfo (no I/O)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:22:33PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've recently been working with ncurses from Python, and would like to
...
> The basic 'problem' is that tputs and putp write to libc's FILE
> *stdout stream. Python's normal output mechanisms have their own
> buffering and write to file descriptor 1 instead of FILE
> *stdout. Therefore, "normal" Python output can't be mixed with putp()
> or tputs() calls without a fair amount of ugliness[1].

Actually, tputs doesn't necessarily write to stdout (the python
binding might need some work, but that's out of scope):

man tputs:

       int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int));
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (no stdout)

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