https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e0f81864ec2853152648050b98ec828f6b74c658 commit: e0f81864ec2853152648050b98ec828f6b74c658 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]> date: 2026-06-28T20:19:17+03:00 summary:
[3.13] gh-87881: Document the result of curses inch() and getbkgd() (GH-152488) (GH-152511) (GH-152515) Explain the character/attribute bit layout and how to extract the parts (A_CHARTEXT and A_ATTRIBUTES bit-masks, pair_number() for the color pair). (cherry picked from commit d831a690766e92b3be5e40134f64407bd041bcbf) (cherry picked from commit 09013312bbdf9ff6583c95ba6bc2698e61c66be6) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/curses.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst index 68154029af564d..32d328283671d7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/curses.rst +++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst @@ -955,6 +955,7 @@ Window objects .. method:: window.getbkgd() Return the given window's current background character/attribute pair. + Its components can be extracted like those of :meth:`inch`. .. method:: window.getch([y, x]) @@ -1042,8 +1043,10 @@ Window objects .. method:: window.inch([y, x]) - Return the character at the given position in the window. The bottom 8 bits are - the character proper, and upper bits are the attributes. + Return the character at the given position in the window. + The bottom 8 bits are the character proper and the upper bits are the attributes; + extract them with the :data:`A_CHARTEXT` and :data:`A_ATTRIBUTES` bit-masks, + and the color pair with :func:`pair_number`. .. method:: window.insch(ch[, attr]) _______________________________________________ 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]
