term 1.0

An enhanced version of the tty module

Overview

The term package is an enhanced version of the standard library’s tty module. It provides context managers for temporarily switching the terminal to raw or cbreak mode and allows to query cursor position and terminal dimensions without having to resort to curses.

Package Contents

setraw(fd, when=TCSAFLUSH, min=1, time=0)

Put the terminal in raw mode.

setcbreak(fd, when=TCSAFLUSH, min=1, time=0)

Put the terminal in cbreak mode.

rawmode(fd, when=TCSAFLUSH, min=1, time=0)

Context manager to put the terminal in raw mode.

cbreakmode(fd, when=TCSAFLUSH, min=1, time=0)

Context manager to put the terminal in cbreak mode.

opentty(bufsize=1)

Context manager returning an rw stream connected to /dev/tty. The stream is None if the device could not be opened.

getyx()

Return the cursor position as 1-based (row, col) tuple. row and col are 0 if the terminal does not support DSR 6.

getmaxyx()

Return the terminal dimensions as (maxrow, maxcol) tuple. maxrow and maxcol are 0 if the terminal does not support DSR 6.

Examples

from term import getyx

print 'The cursor is in line %d column %d' % getyx()

You may also want to look at the source code of getyx, which is a good example of how all this plays together.