[issue21615] Curses bug report for Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

[Richard s. Gordon]

New submission from Richard s. Gordon:

Curses bug report for Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

My Python code outputs text properly with xterm and xterm-16color. It does not work properly with xterm-88color and xterm-256color (after defining RGB color pallet) when run on Python-2.7 and Python-3.2 on Cygwin with Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, Mac OS X 10.9.3 and PS-BSD 10.

For text output to xterm-88color and xterm-256color Python generates unique colors that are plagued by the wrong color and underline artifacts.

			xterm-16color			xterm-16color			xterm-88color						xterm-256color
			==========			==========			==========						===========
Region 1		cyan on black			cyan on black			cyan on olive with underlines			cyan on purple with underlines
Region 2		white on black			white on black			navy on black						white on orange
Region 3		yellow on black		yellow on black		magenta on black with underlines		navy on black with underlines

Some of my test platform terminals (such as iTerm2 on my iMac desktop system running Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.3) default to xterm-256color and presumably already have Python 2.7.5 built for 256 color. I downloaded and built Python 3.2.2. 

My Python test code works properly with xterm and xterm-16color. Both display the wrong colors, some with underlines when run with xterm-88color and xterm-256color.

Any solutions or suggestions?

Richard S. Gordon

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messages: 219425
nosy: eclectic9509
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Curses bug report for Python 2.7 and Python 3.2

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