This patch adds wget_wch support to the curses module.  It may be contributed

upstream at some point, but the suitability (or lack thereof) has not yet

been determined.

--- Python-2.7.6/Modules/_cursesmodule.c.~1~	2013-11-09 23:36:41.000000000 -0800

+++ Python-2.7.6/Modules/_cursesmodule.c	2014-05-14 13:36:59.388642793 -0700

@@ -861,6 +861,37 @@

 }

 static PyObject *

+PyCursesWindow_Get_WCh(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)

+{

+    int x, y;

+    int ct;

+    wint_t rtn;

+

+    switch (PyTuple_Size(args)) {

+    case 0:

+        Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS

+        ct = wget_wch(self->win,&rtn);

+        Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS

+        break;

+    case 2:

+        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"ii;y,x",&y,&x))

+            return NULL;

+        Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS

+        ct = mvwget_wch(self->win,y,x,&rtn);

+        Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS

+        break;

+    default:

+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "get_wch requires 0 or 2 arguments");

+        return NULL;

+    }

+    if (ct == ERR) {

+        PyErr_SetString(PyCursesError, "get_wch failed");

+        return NULL;

+    }

+    return PyInt_FromLong((long)rtn);

+}

+

+static PyObject *

 PyCursesWindow_GetKey(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)

 {

     int x, y;

     {"getbegyx",        (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_getbegyx, METH_NOARGS},

     {"getbkgd",         (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_GetBkgd, METH_NOARGS},

     {"getch",           (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_GetCh, METH_VARARGS},

+    {"get_wch",         (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_Get_WCh, METH_VARARGS},

     {"getkey",          (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_GetKey, METH_VARARGS},

     {"getmaxyx",        (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_getmaxyx, METH_NOARGS},

     {"getparyx",        (PyCFunction)PyCursesWindow_getparyx, METH_NOARGS},