Request for stdwin feature - tty accomodation

Ken Manheimer (ken.manheimer@nist.gov)
Fri, 16 Sep 94 13:37:39 EDT

Currently, as far as i can tell, you typically incorporate stdwin in
python such that it runs under, eg, X or character terminals, but not
both. It seems like it would not be hard to arrange things so that
the window-system and character-terminal versions are both accessible
to the interpreter, and the python module does the job of
distinguishing the right one to load at import time.

(Perhaps i'm missing something, and the standard stdwin/python
configuration does accomplish this...?)

I realize that running the character-terminal version for some things
(eg, wdb) does not make sense, but that is an artifact of the needs
of, eg, wdb, not inherent in stdwin. In fact, i thought one of the
primary features of stdwin is the ability to suitably accomodate
different windowing environments - seems like we'd want to take
advantage of that in python.

Is there are reason to not do this, or an easy way, that i am
overlooking, to do so, already built in to the python configuration?
If not, maybe this is something that could be included with python
1.1?

Ken again.
ken.manheimer@nist.gov, 301 975-3539