curses and use_default_colors()

[Brian Victor]

I am attempting to write a curses-based program.  I would like to use
the default terminal background rather than a black one (a significant
difference with transluscent terminals, regardless of one's opinion of
them).

It appears that in the C ncurses interface, this is accomplished via
use_default_colors() and assume_default_colors().  However, these
functions don't seem to have parallels in the python binding.  Is there
some way to accomplish what I want?

Thanks,

-- 
Brian