Asciimatics doesn't work pycharm

[Sashachan]

I have downloaded Asciimatics using pycharm with required dependencies,like pillow and future. I tested this on Python 3.3.5 and 3.5, but the test code from https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics doesn't work. There are errors:

X:\Python33\python.exe C:/Users/Sasha/PycharmProjects/untitled/main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Sasha/PycharmProjects/untitled/main.py", line 20, in <module>
    Screen.wrapper(demo)
  File "X:\Python33\lib\site-packages\asciimatics\screen.py", line 825, in wrapper
    info = old_out.GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo()
pywintypes.error: (6, 'GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo', 'Nieprawidłowe dojście.')

[peterbrittain]

Are you trying to run this inside the pycharm console? If so, what version of asciimatics are you running?

[Sashachan]

1.6
I'm kinda newbie, so maybe this is the problem.
Yes i'm running it inside pycharm console. I thought that external console/terminal would pop out after running this code. If it's not by the default, is it possible to change it to external normal console?

[peterbrittain]

OK - I see what you're doing...

PyCharm isn't actually using a standard Windows command line interpreter. It is wrapping the interpreter and redirecting stdin/stdout to print that back into its console window. This is not compatible with the Win32 API that controls console output. The same is basically true for the Linux/OSX variants (though the implementation details vary considerably).

Version 1.7 of asciimatics has done a lot to allow you to run UTs inside PyCharm, but because it is not a real console, the output from any live applications just gets discarded. If you want to start up an application from the IDE, the best I can suggest right now is start a "Terminal" using Alt-F12. Once you have done this you can run your application by typing start cmd /c "python <your file name>".

I've just tested this on V1.7, but (since this actually starts a real command line) it should work just fine on V1.6 too.

[Sashachan]

Hah, it is working like a charm! I had to add python to PATH, but thanks to this command everything is cool now. Thank you very much.
Btw is version 1.7 publicly released? Because i can only see v 1.6 on pypi.

[peterbrittain]

Excellent! I'll have a think about some trouble-shooting advice I can add to the docs and then close this issue.

In answer to your question: V1.7 is the latest code on the master branch in GitHub. It has not yet gone public...

[peterbrittain]

Added to troubleshooting.

[diVineProportion]

asciimatics works fine in pycharm. edit the build/run configuration and select 'Emulate terminal in output console' under the 'Execution' category

[peterbrittain]

Thanks @diVineProportion . Can you confirm what version of Pycharm and which OS you are using?