Thomas Dickey dickey at saltmine.radix.net
Fri Feb 15 08:07:15 EST 2002

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Rafael Mentz Aquino <pythonlist at zumnet.com.br> wrote:

> I'm creating some simple interfaces with curses with python under FreeBSD,
> but I'm having some problems to change colors.  I tried to do something in
> /etc/termcap, but when I run curses.can_change_color(), I always obtain 0. 
> My env term is cons25, but I don't know if python uses the same terminal. 
> I'm running python 2.1.1.  Can anybody help me...?  ;-))

can_change_color() applies to terminals that have the ability to change
the content of a particular color, e.g., making blue slightly brighter.
FreeBSD console doesn't do this.

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