[Python-Dev] Adding support to curses library

[anatoly techtonik]

Please note that there is a pending change that will introduce curses
module on Windows in http://bugs.python.org/issue2889  I would really
like to see the patch in the issue integrated before it became invalid
due to other patches to test curses on Windows.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:34 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:30:06AM -0800, Heracles wrote:
>> is commented back in it does fail. I am not sure exactly how a debugger will
>> help in this case since the color_set call goes directly to the ncurses
>> library.  If in fact that the issue is the ncurses library then it seems
>> that there is no feasible solution until that library is fixed, in which
>> case this patch is sort of useless.
> ...
>> erg = color_set(color_pair_number, NULL); // Debating on forcing null
>
> What is color_pair_number in the C code?  If it's some incorrect value
> (-1?  255?), maybe ncurses is indexing off an array and crashing.
>
> This is why a debugger might help; you could run the test program
> until the crash and then print out the values of the relevant
> variables.  e.g. is stdscr set to a non-NULL value?  There might be a
> debugging version of ncurses that will let you look at the variables
> inside the ncurses code, which may make the problem clear.
>
> --amk
>
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--anatoly t.