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Tue Mar 15 14:38:20 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109295.html

Would you please post this to bugs.python.org so that it doesn't get lost?
 thanks!

-gps

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Bill Green <bill at supposedly.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I ran across this issue several months ago and filed a bug report (#9667).
>  It just came up again, and it doesn't look like anything's been done with
> the bug report, so I thought I'd post here.
>
> In _cursesmodule.c there are a lot of preprocesser conditionals that test
> if the system is NetBSD. In my case, the issue was that the module built
> lacked the KEY_UP / _DOWN / etc. constants, but there are other changes as
> well.  This is the case even if you're compiling against ncurses instead of
> the system curses.  Αttached below is a patch against 2.7.1 that negates the
> NetBSD conditionals if ncurses is present.  It seems to work as expected,
> although I haven't done any real testing.  I assumed this was done because
> NetBSD curses was missing something, but I looked at the headers and it
> seems to have most of the constants that the compilation directives are
> leaving out (A_INVIS, the aforementioned KEY_* constants, at least), so I'm
> not sure why that code isn't compiled in anyway.  Please let me know if I'm
> misunderstanding this.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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