Python Curses Tutorial #1 - Make GOOD Looking Terminal Apps!

Welcome back to another video! In this series I will be showing you how to use the Curses Module! I'll be showing you how to style it, update it, refresh it and all kinds of awesome stuff!
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00:00 | Series Overview
01:09 | Curses Demo
02:51 | Curses Setup
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10:48 | Adding Text To The Screen
14:36 | Adding Attributes (Teaser)
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[@CobraOfficer]

Nice job again, Tim. I'm in my late 40s and started programming in Python after i was damn near broken after a nasty car accident. i spent six months in physical therapy and learning to program was a way to help me not focus on the pain. Your videos, as well as other put me well on my way. so thanks my man. You have no idea how much you helped.

[@thevigilvoices]

Wooooo! Goodluck sir 👍

[@CobraOfficer]

Thanks

[@adamvalent2119]

I wish you the best my friend, programming is a wonderful thing to learn

[@Shagadin]

Good luck Mr. Cobra!

[@zd4w9]

Hope you're doing well. You should be pretty good at coding by now!

[@fellow_enginerds]

I have been watching your videos for a few months now and have learned so much already! It encouraged me to pursue an online certificate in computer science which I just received after completing a degree in engineering. So much many more lessons to learn but I’d like to acknowledge you for being a big impact towards my growth.

[@yung_megafone]

ayyy thank you for making this so easy to follow! i made the paint application earlier and I am about to make the speed typer application. You are helping me relearn and expand my python knowledges. You earned a sub man, keep it up!

[@FrancescoTattoli]

That's exactly the course i needed to complete my invoicing program. The right man at the right time Tim, thanks!

[@francescoanastasio2021]

Looking forward to the next part! Sometimes (most of times) I write applications for limited users, writing a GUI every time with PYQT is extremely distressful. Long live cmd!

[@myfunnyval1]

Heey Tim, I'm so glad I hit on your tutorial. I'd been poking around looking for escape sequence to try to achieve some of the things curses does, and you just saved me from re-inventing the wheel. I use Python on both Linux and Windows, and looking forward to trying some of this out.

[@mechwarrior83]

Whatever it is I want to learn about, you already have an expertly made video on it Tim! Thank you so much for putting this amazing content out there.

[@kianureeves2519]

i was worried that curses was too old or obscure for me to find any kind of useful tutorials that actually explain the functions and I'd have to slave over documentation forever to figure it out, but then I remembered youtube existed and low and behold here I am. God bless u sir

[@woulg]

Wo, the amount of effort that you put into this, the beauty, clarity and pacing of the video. Damn, you're a great teacher and thank you I really wanted to learn about this and I'm very thankful to find a great teacher that is covering the topic so well. Looking forward to watching the whole series and following along (or at least as far as I get before my ADHD takes me on some other quest haha)

[@Shagadin]

Tim, your channel (together with two or three others) is always in my list when I recommend material to a person that wants to start programming. GOOD JOB!

[@yep_2431]

Just started python and programming. Mind sharing the other KZbinrs?

[@Shagadin]

@@yep_2431 Corey Schafer for the basics and more and buildwithpython to check the many things you can do with the language.

[@j.o.e.l-joelsonlineeducati6559]

Thanks Tim. Really wanted a curses tutorial series !

[@ahmedalzahrani7356]

Hands down. Tim is really great! I love your videos and I enjoy your teaching style.

[@LGseeker]

Great video Tim, love how thorough you are

[@meercat1880]

ur tutorials deserve so much more recognition

[@ramgopalvarma5949]

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you Tim.

[@ioim_0]

I’ve been waiting for a vid like this Thx a lot

[@cuszco]

Another great tutorial. My only criticism is that you maybe spent a little too much time explaining how to navigate the filesystem. I think that people who are concerned with how their terminal applications look have passed the "What's a computer and how do I use it" stage ;)

[@amir3515]

I think KZbin videos are for those who haven't gotten the skill of learning quickly from documentation or from just reading a quick article. A big portion of those people need their hand held for everything still

[@hussainaqeel7371]

Agreed

[@solomonsam8927]

shut up dude, people still need that

[@hussainaqeel7371]

@@solomonsam8927 Navigating the FS is one of the most basic things...you should learn that while you're a beginner

[@cuszco]

@@solomonsam8927 Relax dude. I'm not saying people don't need that. I'm just saying that those who do are generally not looking into improving their own terminal applications.

[@thelavagod]

Tim, i have a problem, when i import the curses module,it gives me ImportError: no module named _curses

[@Staninna]

Just when I wanted to make a chat application with it u get me with this and now i can make it ✨pretty✨

[@madriagajanjosephg.8047]

I tried the command but it doesn't take me to an empty screen, it just waits for another command help

[@brightsideofmaths]

Great video as always. Thank you :)

[@otsam1394]

whenever i try to run the program the Wrapper(main) line causes an error that stops the program from working. Does anyone know how to fix this.

[@perceptivity_]

12:50 "I'm increasing my wife and my ex or my row and my com". gotta love auto CC

[@itadoriuchiha1327]

lmao xD

[@NikoKun]

Is it possible to use Curses in combination with something like Rich? Or is that just not necessary/possible?

[@christopherhorn5274]

Thanks, you are such a great teacher!

[@GhostAcademy]

Your tutorials are awesome🤗

[@user-dr2to6hd5i]

I typed exactly same code in video but get error : AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'fileno'. How can I fix it?

[@lianacoombs3380]

Tim I can't get my terminal to run courses! Where can I get help? Thanks!!!

[@dannfr]

You make awesome tutorials man

[@johnnytoobad7785]

This kind reminds me of my prior life when I used to do character based UI programming on the DEC-VT100. Except they used escape sequences. The more things change..the more they remain the same. I just figured out how to add "color" to python log messages. That uses also.

[@tsg1zzn]

I am sure curses uses escape sequences under the hood.

[@dryoldcrabman6890]

VSCODE curses does not lint. It's driving me nuts? Do you know of a fix to make vscode lint curses?

[@tomethan5504]

error occuring : No module named '_curses' ... need help!! using linux...

[@ThibaultDelattre]

Hey thanks for your videos Tim! I love a good TUI, so that's going to be useful. PS: Quick nitpick about IDLE. it's supposed to be pronouced like the word 'idle', it's an hommage to Monty Python's Eric Idle. Monty Python are the reason the language is called Python.

[@oglothenerd]

You make such good tutorials! Is it possible that you could make a Curses tutorial for Rust? You already did an introduction to Rust tutorial!

[@NikoKun]

After seeing that first typing-test demo, I had a weird urge to try making it, without curses or anything else! ..And I actually figured out a way to do that portably, without needing additional libraries beyond what Python comes with. ;D

[@NikoKun]

@Anirudh Agrahari Well, my name on git hub is Nikorasu, and I've got it posted in my MiscPython repo under TypingWPM. Bit of a rough draft there tho. At this time, it's just a Linux only version. Tho I'll add Windows support later, since it's super easy, just need to swap my getch function for the one in msvcrt.

[@jjophoven]

Can you change the size of the text?

[@laural4976]

Hi Tim! Can you make Data Structures and Algorithms shorts? I have ADHD and your shorts have been greatly helpful for my learning :) Thanks for your videos!

[@MichaelKitas]

Love your videos!

[@muhammadnajamulislam2823]

Very nice bro love your videos

[@mohamedasifar]

Thanks for video,Tim

[@vineetasingh3911]

Superb tim keep going

[@k_sgaming925]

I can't install windows-curses but i can install pygame in your how to install pygame video i follow every step and i can only install pygame but can't install winows-curse whenever i try to install windows-curses it shows ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement windows-curses (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for windows-curses Please tell me or make a video on how to install windows-curses on windows10 My python version is 3.10

[@OthmanAlikhan]

Thanks for the video =)

[@yonatangoldin]

ok so i cant install the curses module even tho my Path is added and im typing the right commands into cmd, did this happen to anyone else? do you know whats causig the issue?

[@lianacoombs3380]

I'm having same problem. : (

[@thev01d12]

Make a cmdline text editor like vim in curses. Would be a great series.

[@Omerko]

Nice one.. 😀

[@xx-jk1iq]

How long will this series be

[@jessejohnston9858]

thanks for the video. really needed this for my scripts. Hey also anyone ever tell you that you look like Joaquin Phoenix in gladiator?

[@jeekakrishna]

i was looking exactly for this... can you make these tutorial more

[@enzolp1]

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses' I started getting this error, it was working some days ago, i tried to uninstall windows-curses and install again, but didn't work

[@dryoldcrabman6890]

It will run. But vscode does not recognize it.

[@vlastimilslechta8927]

as an ios user this didnt work for me. Had to stop right at the windows curses....

[@Saboor-Hamedi]

I get this error, none of the videos work you suggest, could you please tell me why is that? ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement windows-courses (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for windows-courses

[@SajinSA]

Curses*

[@Saboor-Hamedi]

@@SajinSA Sorry its typo here, I did curses, but still the same

[@youssefsabban1069]

i wanted to try the last tutorial but i always get this message and even i watched the recommended video for the problem and i didn't solve it , im using python version 10 (ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement windows-curses (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for windows-curses) can you please tell me what wrong! Edit: ( pip install curses )does work but is it the same?

[@TechWithTim]

Can u try using the cursed module without installing it? It may already be installed

[@youssefsabban1069]

@@TechWithTim i run it, it worked(maybe in the last version of python it came as a standard feature ). thank you Tim for everything and im really enjoying doing project with you in this channel it been an addiction. and thank you again for everything.

[@lokeshwaranm244]

@@TechWithTim ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥Bro can u explain and make a video on **how to view the source code of all this modules and package of python** and other languages too 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@sadfox9294]

It would be nice to get the code examples shown in the video

[@Sh7dh]

I can’t execute program with curses

[@RonnieRendel]

Right on time.

[@Muffin-wl7xs]

rip pip xmlrpc :/ took me a while to figure out what in the world happened and how to get that windows-curses package installed, finally can hop on the tutorial train :D

[@JakeAnthrax420]

Ur the best tim 🔥

[@kocraft137]

Note: All of the features of 'curses' can be recreated with the STANDARD PYTHON LIBRARY

[@eduardomunhoz1581]

would be great to have a tutorial of it for rust

[@bilbot8195]

How is Joaquin Pheonix developing in Python now?

[@CoKeZerO195]

Yes, Tim is great!

[@erdenejargalbattulga2891]

Looks like good

[@disrael2101]

Hey great video but u didn't explain how the wrapper works exactly, do uve a video on that? Because i just see you call the warpper with the main as argument how come we use the main parameter std to do stuff for us from "nowhere" afterwards? Thx

[@marlonrivera6097]

hello, What ide is tim using?

[@aftabamin1844]

sublime text

[@marlonrivera6097]

Thank youu

[@aletraverso]

hi, what editor are you using?

[@ddhruvarora]

he is using Sublime text

[@aletraverso]

​@@ddhruvarora Gracias, Thanks.

[@iliketobewithpeople9821]

i really prefer writing CLI programs and using CLI programs, but learning python curses, the documentation kinda always confused me, however thank you so much for this series. Helps a lot!

[@havenisse2009]

Quick notice : the name of your desktop changes with the locale of windows.

[@shubhrajit2117]

Note that curses is not supported on python 3.10 yet

[@jjophoven]

You can also clear the screen with os.system('cls')

[@tsg1zzn]

No, that doesn't do the same thing. That clears the normal terminal window, not the special screen mode that curses uses.

[@backslashflutter]

JUST A SUGGESTION, REALLY LOVE YOUR CONTENT. BUT CAN YOU CHANGE THE OVERALL THEME FOR YOUR THUMBNAILS MAYBE ENGAGE MORE UNIQUE VIEWERS ❤️

[@bxr4231]

it is already tho

[@jaanekborodajev5654]

I'm a very strong perfectionist and couldn't start. What language should I start with? And what to go to later. desires to create games, but also to understand in the future in such things as blockchain, etc. but the problem at the beginning. after the language, I can not find a video of pure use of programs. where to write on what to write, what to include. for me it is very important to have a clean computer. and different videos say install it, install that. and this stops me because where is the truth. you have a video, about the first language and how to install everything correctly and what is for. that is, a short video let's say about python. 1 install it will need it and it works So 3 to test what you wrote, you need it and it works like this. and so on, thank you

[@lokeshwaranm244]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥Bro can u explain and make a video on **how to view the source code of all this modules and package of python** and other languages too 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@maccorehenniwatch]

I also want to point out that if you're on Debian 12, you'll need to use python3.11 to execute it as a python3.11 script, rather then python3.12 (at least at this comment's time)

[@patnaphotocopier5353]

[tim]my name is, zaid and your video all watching, very nice video, good luck and i am learn your video and and [i am indian]

[@patnaphotocopier5353]

hii

[@patnaphotocopier5353]

tim

[@Sh7dh]

Its not working

[@m4rt_]

3:50 I'm using emacs

[@ahmedelsayed-jc9bj]

Data structure python???

[@MrKleiner]

* python tutorial * * JavaScript in the background on the thumbnail *

[@segsfault]

Hell naaaah, i want a tutorial for c++ ncurses

[@reisaki18]

I think bpytop was build with this

[@AbhishekYadav-ni5ts]

Plss make a tutorial on tkinter...

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Great suggestion. There aren't any really good vids out there on tkinter combined with ttk that show you how to write "true" custom tkinter gui objects. (Ex. using ttk.label to make a status line object). I figured it out...but it took a bit of online research.

[@DavidTangye]

I started with tkinter, then moved to PySimpleGui, which uses tkinter. I think it is much better/quicker to use than tkinter direct for most applications, that would otherwise be done in cmdline (input/print) or curses. Following this series with interest, as perhaps curses is better than PySimpleGui. With curses, I need to see how to place output relative to other output, on different sized windows. I guess you set the window size first, then hard code x,y coords as done in this vid. That's how I do it tkinter/PySimpleGui.

[@t4f1]

12:47 turn on auto sub

[@Sh7dh]

Not executing

[@bilbot8195]

I would say someone who does not how to move into directories should not follow a tutorial about curses (ie this part was useless)

[@vt2788]

ah that's what 'std' stands for on my medical record..

[@matejnovosad9152]

Lol did this with colorama

[@jkapleau]

I believe the Python IDE is pronounced “Idle” as in Eric Idle, one of the members of the Monty Python comedy group.

[@terryr5713]

Tim, computer science is only coding you can't do anything else with this degree you're just using a computer and create websites apps, games which is interesting but you don't deal with all kinds of technology, you don't use maths, physics and other subjects to your work

[@aftabamin1844]

computer science is most definitely not just coding

[@b391i]

This Is Joe Say Hi Joe 😂

[@youssefakharoub9874]

thank you for the course; i am a Muslim what about you

[@max_ishere]

Putting anything on the Desktop is cringe

[@lokeshwaranm244]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥Bro can u explain and make a video on **how to view the source code of all this modules and package of python** and other languages too 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️