gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO - #152491
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The HOWTO pointed at UniCurses, which is unmaintained and exposes its own API. windows-curses provides the standard curses interface on Windows, so existing code runs unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks @serhiy-storchaka for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14, 3.15. |
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GH-152506 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch. |
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GH-152507 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
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GH-152508 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
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…2491) (GH-152508) The HOWTO pointed at UniCurses, which is unmaintained and exposes its own API. windows-curses provides the standard curses interface on Windows, so existing code runs unchanged. (cherry picked from commit 7b0dff7) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…2491) (GH-152507) The HOWTO pointed at UniCurses, which is unmaintained and exposes its own API. windows-curses provides the standard curses interface on Windows, so existing code runs unchanged. (cherry picked from commit 7b0dff7) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…2491) (GH-152506) The HOWTO pointed at UniCurses, which is unmaintained and exposes its own API. windows-curses provides the standard curses interface on Windows, so existing code runs unchanged. (cherry picked from commit 7b0dff7) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The curses HOWTO recommended :pypi:
UniCurses, which is unmaintained and exposes its own API rather than the standard :mod:cursesinterface.Recommend :pypi:
windows-cursesinstead: it provides the standard curses interface on Windows (so existing curses code runs unchanged) and is actively maintained.🤖 Generated with Claude Code