How to use terminal color palette with curses

Question

I can\'t get the terminal color palette to work with curses.

import curses

def main(stdscr):
    curses.use_default_colors()
    for i in range(0,7):
        st         


        

Answer 1

I don't have the rep-points to submit this as a comment to Chiel ten Brinke's excellent answer, so I'll offer here a more useful version of his color script:

import curses
def main(stdscr):
    curses.start_color()
    curses.use_default_colors()
    for i in range(0, curses.COLORS):
        curses.init_pair(i + 1, i, -1)
    stdscr.addstr(0, 0, '{0} colors available'.format(curses.COLORS))
    maxy, maxx = stdscr.getmaxyx()
    maxx = maxx - maxx % 5
    x = 0
    y = 1
    try:
        for i in range(0, curses.COLORS):
            stdscr.addstr(y, x, '{0:5}'.format(i), curses.color_pair(i))
            x = (x + 5) % maxx
            if x == 0:
                y += 1
    except curses.ERR:
        pass
    stdscr.getch()
curses.wrapper(main)