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by scrollaway 4472 days ago
Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses?

On a different note... developers, please use Python 3. Several Linux distributions are now using Py3 as their main python and those scripts with an "env python" hashbang will not work.

Porting your codebase to be python 2+3 compatible is dead simple, and most of the time it is just a matter of using print("foo") instead of print "foo". So please be considerate.
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lebinh 4472 days ago
Unfortunately most of the servers I'm working with are still on python2 by default. The latest Ubuntu LTS, 12.04, only has python2 by default so python2 is still my priority. But in this case, a port should be trivia so I'll look into python3 as soon as possible.

Yes, ncurses would be much better but I haven't had time for it yet. Clearing screen is simple enough and work pretty well for me so far so here we are :)

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mappu 4471 days ago
It's a release goal for 14.04 (due in about 30 days) to have no python2 software in the default desktop/server installs. Seems like there's still lots to be done though. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3
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stefantalpalaru 4471 days ago
> Several Linux distributions are now using Py3 as their main python

Only Arch Linux does it.

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