New in version 1.6.
The curses module provides an interface to the curses Unix library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling.
While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, versions are available for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. This extension module is designed to match the API of ncurses, an open-source curses library hosted on Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.
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Tutorial material on using curses with Python is available on the Python Web site as Andrew Kuchling's Curses Programming with Python, at http://www.python.org/doc/howto/curses/curses.html.