I am observing a weird spacing issue when I call git within a python-curses screen. What am I doing in my minimal working example below that causes the spacing to be ajar and not flush with the side of the screen?
import curses, subprocess
class MyApp(object):
def __init__(self, stdscreen):
self.screen = stdscreen
self.screen.addstr("Loading..." + '\n')
self.screen.refresh()
url = 'http://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/'
process = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'clone', url], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
self.screen.addstr("Press any key to continue.")
self.screen.getch()
if __name__ == '__main__':
curses.wrapper(MyApp)
Loading...
Press any key to continue.Cloning into 'Hello-World'...
warning: redirecting to https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/
remote: Enumerating objects: 13, done.
remote: Total 13 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 13
Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done.3)
Loading...
Cloning into 'Hello-World'...
warning: redirecting to https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/
remote: Enumerating objects: 13, done.
remote: Total 13 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 13
Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done.3)
Press any key to continue.
git clone
writes its informative messages to stderr, not stdout.
From the documentation (emphasis added):
--verbose
Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status to the standard error stream.
(the code below is by Justapigeon)
Updated MWE with this consideration:
import curses, subprocess
import os, re
class MyApp(object):
def __init__(self, stdscreen):
self.screen = stdscreen
self.screen.addstr("Loading..." + '\n')
self.screen.refresh()
url = 'http://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/'
#process = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'clone', url], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
# additional code from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39564562/6924364
dloutput = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'clone', '--progress', url], stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
fd = dloutput.stderr.fileno()
gitmsg = []
while True:
lines = os.read(fd,1000).decode('utf-8')
lines = re.split('\n|\r', lines)
for l in lines:
self.screen.erase()
for g in gitmsg:
self.screen.addstr(g + '\n')
if l != '':
self.screen.addstr(str(l) + '\n')
self.screen.refresh()
if 'Cloning' in l:
gitmsg.append(l)
if 'done' in l:
gitmsg.append(l)
if len(lines) == 1:
break
self.screen.addstr("Press any key to continue.")
self.screen.getch()
if __name__ == '__main__':
curses.wrapper(MyApp)