[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

Ned Deily added the comment: I believe this is now just a duplicate of Issue36982. If there is anything not already covered there, let's discuss it there. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Add support for extended

[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

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[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

Jeffrey Kintscher added the comment: I created issue #36982 to track the extended color changes since they broader than this issue. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

Jeffrey Kintscher added the comment: I posted a bug report to the bug-ncurses mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-05/msg00022.html -- ___ Python tracker

[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

Jeffrey Kintscher added the comment: The test fails because curses.pair_content(curses.COLOR_PAIRS-1) validates its parameter against the limits for signed short (max 32767) while curses.COLOR_PAIRS-1 has the value 65535. Unfortunately, re-plumbing curses.pair_content() to use signed

[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

Chih-Hsuan Yen added the comment: I asked on bug-ncurses mailing list and Thomas Dickey suggests "improving the python curses binding to handle the newer terminal descriptions". Looks like that requires non-trivial efforts. On the other hand, I've also found a workaround: $ TERM=xterm

[issue36630] failure of test_colors_funcs in test_curses with ncurses 6.1

New submission from Xavier de Gaye : ncurses version: 6.1 TERM: screen-256color $ ./python -m test -u curses test_curses Run tests sequentially 0:00:00 load avg: 0.55 [1/1] test_curses test test_curses failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/path/to/Lib/test/test_curses.py", line