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This is a collection of demos and tests for the curses module. 

ncurses demos
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These demos are converted from the C versions in the ncurses
distribution, and were contributed by Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>
I didn't strive for a `pythonic' style, but bluntly copied the
originals. I won't attempt to `beautify' the program anytime soon, but
I wouldn't mind someone else making an effort in that direction, of
course.

ncurses.py      -- currently only a panels demo
                   XXX this won't work until panel support is checked in
rain.py         -- raindrops keep falling on my desktop
tclock.py       -- ASCII clock, by Howard Jones
xmas.py         -- I'm dreaming of an ASCII christmas

Please send bugfixes and new contributions to me or, even better,
submit them to the Python Bug Tracker on SourceForge
(<URL:http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470>).


Other demos
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life.py         -- Simple game of Life
repeat.py       -- Repeatedly execute a shell command (like watch(1))