gijstimmers / cursor Goto Github PK

I am maintaining a AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-cursor/) for cursor since August 2018. If you think that this is done right (the package build instructions can be seen in the PKGBUILD https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=python-cursor), we could mention this as the preferred way to install cursor for Arch Linux users. Maybe we could write somehing like this in the README:

Arch Linux:
The package is available in the AUR. You can either use a AUR helper or manually install it:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/python-cursor.git
cd python-cursor
makepkg -si
sudo pacman -U python-cursor-x.y.z-r-any.pkg.xz

In addition, many people do not consider it as good practice to use sudo pip to install python packages. It installs the python files on your system path, which is usually already maintained by the system's package manager (pacman for Arch users, apt-get for Debian/Ubuntu users). Maybe you should encourage users to set up virtual environments or at least use pip install ---user to install the package.

README states:

Note that the cursor will stay hidden until you call cursor.show() — even after exiting your python script!
An alternative is using the HiddenCursor() class in conjunction with Python's with statement. This will make sure that the cursor is shown again after running your code, even if exceptions are raised.

As another easy alternative, you might consider using the Python atexit module (or just mentioning the possibility in the README for that matter). Could work as follows:

>>> import cursor
>>> import atexit
>>> atexit.register(cursor.show)
<function show at 0x7f6ebbf7b668>
>>> cursor.hide()
>>> print("hello world!")
hello world!
>>> exit()

Currently, escape sequences are outputted to stdout which is not customizable. A feature request would be to allow users to select the stream themselves.

Hi,
I would like to ask you if there would be possibility of relicensing this repo to MIT if would author of the answer on stackoverflow agree?

As in the subject, just wondering if this code is strictly GPL-3.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later.

Using Python 3.7 on Windows 10

cursor.hide() works first time but if I resize the console window it comes back. After this any attempt to re-run cursor.hide() is ignored and the cursor will not go away.