https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7b0dff7d16ce59df44847ab04567eb97bfbc3576 commit: 7b0dff7d16ce59df44847ab04567eb97bfbc3576 branch: main author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2026-06-28T19:30:04+03:00 summary:
gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO (GH-152491) 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 <[email protected]> files: M Doc/howto/curses.rst diff --git a/Doc/howto/curses.rst b/Doc/howto/curses.rst index e5f85e0110321c8..7bcf63c0b458962 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/curses.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/curses.rst @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ code, all the functions described here will probably be available. The older versions of curses carried by some proprietary Unixes may not support everything, though. -The Windows version of Python doesn't include the :mod:`curses` -module. A ported version called :pypi:`UniCurses` is available. +The Windows version of Python doesn't include the :mod:`curses` module. +The third-party :pypi:`windows-curses` package provides the same interface on Windows. The Python curses module _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
