From: Serhiy Storchaka Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:30:04 +0000 (+0300) Subject: gh-110904: Recommend windows-curses in the curses HOWTO (GH-152491) X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b0dff7d16ce59df44847ab04567eb97bfbc3576;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git 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 --- diff --git a/Doc/howto/curses.rst b/Doc/howto/curses.rst index e5f85e011032..7bcf63c0b458 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