[Python-Dev] curses module has_key emulation

[Mats Wichmann]

I've been heading down a twisted path that's
led me to run the curses regression test
on a build that's been forced to use the
curses has_key emulation code.

It fails on the "has_key(13)" line in the test,
and the has_key.py code looks questionable to me:
it does:

     capability_name = _capability_names[ch]

     if _curses.tigetstr(capability_name): return 1
     else: return 0


The keys in the _capability_names dictionary are
taken from the curses keycodes and are in the
range octal 0400 to 0777, so the dictionary lookup
on a key of 13 takes a KeyError exception - which
is not caught, as can be seen above.

Any thoughts?