Subj : Python/Term Emulation
To   : DustCouncil
From : opicron
Date : Mon May 26 2025 06:32 pm

 Du> One of the scripts on my system is the popular IBOL (interBBS OneLiner) sc
 Du>  This will print an ANSI header regardless of terminal emulation, and embe
 Du> Python is not very well documented on the Mystic wiki. What I'd really lik
 Du> do is detect terminal emulation and either print the .ANS if ANSI emulatio
 Du> in effect, otherwise print the ASC, but I have no idea how to determine/IF
 Du> this in Python.
 Du> 
 Du> This the function that checks if the header file (with the .ans extension)
 Du> exists, and, if so, reads and prints it.
 Du> 
 Du> What I want to do is determine the terminal emulation and put an if-then
 Du> statement either selecting the .ANS or .ASC file accordingly.
 Du> 
 Du> I am running v0.2 of this script.
 Du> 
 Du> This is a nitpicky thing, but other than this my system does well filterin
 Du> the ANSI stuff except for this, with a few other exceptions.
 Du> 
 Du> Does anyone know how to do this?  One other possibility is to re-write the
 Du> header using built-incodes rather than ANSI in hopes Mystic will fitler th
 Du> 

You might be lucky using find_display(). It will load the correct ANSI file for the current screen size 80x25 or 132x37 etc. I never tried, but I think it will also load the ASC instead of ANS when the emulation mode is set.

Do note that find_display('filename') only works on the newer Mystic release.

To determine yourself if you need ANS or ASC, you can use mci2str('SI') which will return ASCII or ANSI.

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