No life

[lonnen]

I cloned the repo at 8de092a. I set up a virtual env, install blessings, and run python conway. My console clears, but that's about it until I send ctrl-c to kill it, at which point my terminal prompt comes back. Using iterm2 on OSX 10.7, with the Solarized color scheme. I altered the contrast so that all text turns up bright white and still didn't see anything, so I don't think it's drawing characters with the same color as the background.

What's the expected behavior?

[erikrose]

Hmm, sposta work. Does Terminal work? Maybe iTerm is using a different term type and blessings is screwing up.

[erikrose]

iTerm2 1.0.0.20110907 works for me. My typical zsh setup and a virgin OS X one do, too. Hmm! I really wish I could reproduce this.

[erikrose]

It even works with Solarized Dark, from http://www.iterm2.com/hostedcolors/Solarized%20Dark.itermcolors. (There doesn't seem to be a built-in Solarized preset.)

[erikrose]

I wonder if your term is black and white (or thinks it is). Right now I'm just printing spaces with background colors and not doing any testing to see whether color is, in fact, available. If you replace ' ' with '#' in the code, what happens?

[lonnen]

I'm using solarized dark.

In OSX terminal the terminal clears, and then the cursor appears and bounces erratically between 4 or 5 arbitrary positions. Maybe it's something about my python set up?

[erikrose]

What version of iTerm? I tried the recent beta.

[erikrose]

I'm still curious about the # thing above. And what does this tell you?

from blessings import Terminal
Terminal().number_of_colors

I get 256. I wonder if you get 0.

[lonnen]

Using iTerm2 Build 1.0.0.20120203

>>> from blessings import Terminal
>>> Terminal().number_of_colors
8

with OSX Terminal Version 2.2.3 (303.2) and TerminalColours (v1.0) plugin

>>> from blessings import Terminal
>>> Terminal().number_of_colors
8
>>> 

[erikrose]

That's it. :-) I'm using all high-ANSI colors, beyond the range of what your terminal supports. I'll make it smarter.