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6. Generic Operating System Services

6.1 os -- Miscellaneous operating system interfaces

6.2 os.path -- Common pathname manipulations

6.3 dircache -- Cached directory listings

6.4 stat -- Interpreting stat() results

6.5 statcache -- An optimization of os.stat()

6.6 statvfs -- Constants used with os.statvfs()

6.7 filecmp -- File and Directory Comparisons

6.8 subprocess -- Subprocess management

6.9 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible I/O streams

6.10 datetime -- Basic date and time types

6.11 time -- Time access and conversions

6.12 sched -- Event scheduler

6.13 mutex -- Mutual exclusion support

6.14 getpass -- Portable password input

6.15 curses -- Terminal handling for character-cell displays

6.16 curses.textpad -- Text input widget for curses programs

6.17 curses.wrapper -- Terminal handler for curses programs

6.18 curses.ascii -- Utilities for ASCII characters

6.19 curses.panel -- A panel stack extension for curses.

6.20 getopt -- Parser for command line options

6.21 optparse -- More powerful command line option parser

6.22 tempfile -- Generate temporary files and directories

6.23 errno -- Standard errno system symbols

6.24 glob -- Unix style pathname pattern expansion

6.25 fnmatch -- Unix filename pattern matching

6.26 shutil -- High-level file operations

6.27 locale -- Internationalization services

6.28 gettext -- Multilingual internationalization services

6.29 logging -- Logging facility for Python

6.30 platform -- Access to underlying platform's identifying data.

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6.17 `curses.wrapper` -- Terminal handler for curses programs

New in version 1.6.

This module supplies one function, wrapper(), which runs another function which should be the rest of your curses-using application. If the application raises an exception, wrapper() will restore the terminal to a sane state before re-raising the exception and generating a traceback.

wrapper( func, ...): Wrapper function that initializes curses and calls another function, func, restoring normal keyboard/screen behavior on error. The callable object func is then passed the main window 'stdscr' as its first argument, followed by any other arguments passed to wrapper().

Before calling the hook function, wrapper() turns on cbreak mode, turns off echo, enables the terminal keypad, and initializes colors if the terminal has color support. On exit (whether normally or by exception) it restores cooked mode, turns on echo, and disables the terminal keypad.

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