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Serhiy Storchaka 83391ceff6 [3.15] gh-152502: Detect the curses mouse interface portably (GH-152705) (GH-152707)
The mouse interface (getmouse(), the BUTTON* constants, ...) was gated on the
ncurses-specific NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION macro, so it was dropped on other curses
implementations that provide it, such as NetBSD curses and PDCurses.

Gate it instead on a configure capability probe or the PDCURSES macro.  Probe
for getmouse() with its X/Open getmouse(MEVENT *) signature, since PDCurses
declares an incompatible getmouse(void) unless built for the ncurses mouse API,
which PDC_NCMOUSE now always selects.

(cherry picked from commit 7bbea4f486)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-30 23:59:28 +03:00
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2026-06-23 16:25:59 +03:00

The Python C API
================

The C API is divided into these sections:

1. ``Include/``: Limited API
2. ``Include/cpython/``: CPython implementation details
3. ``Include/cpython/``, names with the ``PyUnstable_`` prefix: API that can
   change between minor releases
4. ``Include/internal/``, and any name with ``_`` prefix: The internal API

Information on changing the C API is available `in the developer guide`_

.. _in the developer guide: https://devguide.python.org/c-api/