Please note that there is a pending change that will introduce curses module on Windows in http://bugs.python.org/issue2889 I would really like to see the patch in the issue integrated before it became invalid due to other patches to test curses on Windows.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:34 PM, A.M. Kuchling <a...@amk.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:30:06AM -0800, Heracles wrote: >> is commented back in it does fail. I am not sure exactly how a debugger will >> help in this case since the color_set call goes directly to the ncurses >> library. If in fact that the issue is the ncurses library then it seems >> that there is no feasible solution until that library is fixed, in which >> case this patch is sort of useless. > ... >> erg = color_set(color_pair_number, NULL); // Debating on forcing null > > What is color_pair_number in the C code? If it's some incorrect value > (-1? 255?), maybe ncurses is indexing off an array and crashing. > > This is why a debugger might help; you could run the test program > until the crash and then print out the values of the relevant > variables. e.g. is stdscr set to a non-NULL value? There might be a > debugging version of ncurses that will let you look at the variables > inside the ncurses code, which may make the problem clear. > > --amk > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/techtonik%40gmail.com > -- --anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
