Curses programming in Python
I recently moved all the applications I typically run on a local machine to a screen session on my VPS. This includes IRC running on Irssi and the Mutt email client. The other thing I wanted to move in was Twitter and Identica, and this is where the interesting bit comes in.
I had been using a combination of Gwibber and Twirssi to deal with the microblogs, but Twirssi is written in Perl and requires Net::Twitter to run. Which is not packaged for Ubuntu Karmic or Debian stable. (An old version is in testing and unstable, but neither of these are going on a “production” server, and I’d be surprised if it actually works with Twirssi.)
So it looks like Twirssi is out of the question. I then turned my eyes to the search engines. After a bit of searching, I didn’t find anything relevant, so, as I had been intending to learn the Python curses interface for a while, I decided to write my own.
Enter PCTP (http://github.com/jshholland/pctc), the Python Curses Twitter Client. It currently doesn’t do a lot, but it will soon (sooner with your help :) ). I hope it’ll end up being the Mutt of Twitter clients. I expect it to end up doing enough for me to manage.
One quick note about how it’s written: it turns out the Python curses module is somewhat low-level, being not much more than an interface to the underlying C functions tidied up a bit. As a result, I found the excellent system Urwid (http://excess.org/urwid/). It is a widget system for curses, an excellent idea, and it seems to be pretty nicely implemented from what I’ve seen. The example programs in the source tree are pretty nifty too.
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