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 Library
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+- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
+  initialization fails.
+
 - Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
   ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
   TypeError.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.