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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Dropping frontends","articleBody":"Since we have a ticket to track dropping Python 2 support in #819 in 0.21 I thought it'd be OK to have a ticket to track dropping support for the various backends bpython currently supports.\r\n\r\nThe current backends we 'support' (they are in various state of support hence the scare quotes):\r\n\r\n1. curtsies\r\n2. cli (deprecation warning since 0.19)\r\n3. urwid (deprecation warning since 0.19)\r\n\r\nOf these I believe the curses backend is required to support Windows, the urwid backend is required to support integration with Twisted's reactor (see #803).\r\n\r\nI'd want to support both of these usecases in the curtsies frontend, I personally mostly care about integration with event loops as Python has added this natively by running -m asyncio.\r\n\r\nIs there anything I am lacking in regards to unique features so I can make a plan of attack @sebastinas @thomasballinger ?\r\n\r\nMore related tickets: #797 ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/supakeen","@type":"Person","name":"supakeen"},"datePublished":"2020-07-12T19:40:20.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/820/bpython/issues/820"}