[issue984870] curses: getmaxyx() breaks when the window shrinks

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: I agree with Chris's logic; the incorrect size seems to be a curses/ncurses bug that has gotten fixed somewhere along the line. You also aren't able to shrink the terminal to be smaller than the size of a derived window created with derwin(), but you seem to

[issue984870] curses: getmaxyx() breaks when the window shrinks

Christian Hudon added the comment: I get the same traceback. The traceback happens only when the window is shrunk below the size specified in derwin(). It's easy to see this by changing the first and second arguments to the derwin call to something like 2, 2, and then you can resize the window

[issue984870] curses: getmaxyx() breaks when the window shrinks

akira <4kir4...@gmail.com> added the comment: The test produces a traceback while shrinking a window (increasing the window size works ok): Traceback (most recent call last): File "screen-resize-bug-curses.py", line 22, in curses.wrapper(main) File "/.../python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", l

[issue984870] curses: getmaxyx() breaks when the window shrinks

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[issue984870] curses: getmaxyx() breaks when the window shrinks

Daniel Diniz added the comment: I get a different behavior, with shrinking reporting correct sizes, but quiting with a "_curses.error: curses function returned NULL", on trunk, KDE 3.5's Konsole._curses.error: curses function returned NULL -- nosy: +ajaksu2 stage: -> test needed type: