Message 114774 - Python tracker

Message114774

Author	bgreen
Recipients	bgreen
Date	2010-08-24.10:15:11
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Message-id	<1282644914.67.0.328045909398.issue9667@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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_cursesmodule.c provides a list of constants, prefixed with KEY_, corresponding to special keys (KEY_DOWN, KEY_LEFT, KEY_BACKSPACE, etc.). A portion of the function init_curses, which implements these, is #defined out on NetBSD (at line 2860 in Python 2.7). PyCurses_KeyName, which seems related (line 2111) is also not compiled on NetBSD. This is presumably because NetBSD's libcurses doesn't provide this functionality. These functions work when _cursesmodule.c is linked to ncurses rather than BSD curses. Could the preprocessor directives be changed to omit these functions only if the platform is NetBSD AND ncurses is not being used?

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_cursesmodule.c provides a list of constants, prefixed with KEY_, corresponding to special keys (KEY_DOWN, KEY_LEFT, KEY_BACKSPACE, etc.). A portion of the function init_curses, which implements these, is #defined out on NetBSD (at line 2860 in Python 2.7).  PyCurses_KeyName, which seems related (line 2111) is also not compiled on NetBSD.  This is presumably because NetBSD's libcurses doesn't provide this functionality.

These functions work when _cursesmodule.c is linked to ncurses rather than BSD curses. Could the preprocessor directives be changed to omit these functions only if the platform is NetBSD AND ncurses is not being used?

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