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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/curses.rst
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Expand Up @@ -2211,6 +2211,17 @@ The :mod:`!curses` module defines the following data members:

.. versionadded:: 3.8

.. data:: pdcurses_version

A named tuple containing the three components of the PDCurses library
version: *major*, *minor*, and *patch*. All values are integers. The
components can also be accessed by name, so ``curses.pdcurses_version[0]``
is equivalent to ``curses.pdcurses_version.major`` and so on.

Availability: if the PDCurses library is used.

.. versionadded:: next

.. data:: COLORS

The maximum number of colors the terminal can support.
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions Include/py_curses.h
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# define PDC_NCMOUSE
#endif

/* <windows.h>, which Python.h includes, defines MOUSE_MOVED as a console input
flag; PDCurses gives the name to a mouse event mask of its own. The module
uses the curses one, so drop the Windows definition before the header below
redefines it. */
#ifdef MOUSE_MOVED
# undef MOUSE_MOVED
#endif

/* On Solaris/illumos, the SVr4 <curses.h> does "typedef char bool;", which
clashes with C's bool from <stdbool.h>. Define _BOOL to suppress it, and
include <stdbool.h> for the bool the header then needs. ncurses ignores
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-07-19-21-30-00.gh-issue-85796.Pd3Cur.rst
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The :mod:`curses` and :mod:`curses.panel` modules can now be built on Windows
against a user-supplied `PDCurses <https://pdcurses.org/>`_ library by pointing
the ``PDCURSES_DIR`` environment variable at its source tree.
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