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-3.4.0/Modules/_cursesmodule.c.~1~	2014-03-16 19:31:31.000000000 -0700

+++ Python-3.4.0/Modules/_cursesmodule.c	2014-03-17 13:44:21.194828659 -0700

@@ -1187,6 +1187,37 @@

 }

 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 PyLong_FromLong((long)rtn);

+}

+

+static PyObject *

 PyCursesWindow_GetKey(PyCursesWindowObject *self, PyObject *args)

 {

     int x, y;

@@ -2059,6 +2090,7 @@

     {"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},

 #ifdef HAVE_NCURSESW

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