Bug report

curses.initscr(), curses.newterm() and curses.start_color() are Python wrappers of the C functions (they copy the ACS_*, LINES/COLS and COLORS/COLOR_PAIRS constants into the package), and the wrappers have no docstring, so help(curses.initscr) shows nothing although _curses.initscr is documented. The curses.screen type has no docstring either, unlike window, complexchar and complexstr.

Also, the docstring of _curses.initscr() says "Return a WindowObject", the name of the C struct rather than the Python type.

Linked PRs

• gh-157546: Add missing docstrings in curses #157547
• [3.15] gh-157546: Add missing docstrings in curses (GH-157547) #157903
• [3.14] gh-157546: Add missing docstrings in curses (GH-157547) #157904
• [3.13] gh-157546: Add missing docstrings in curses (GH-157547) #157905