Python 2.0 is not supposed to use string exceptions in the standard library
& extensions, so create exceptions in extension modules using the
PyErr_NewException() API.
diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index f98f12e..330f6a2 100644
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@
ModDict = d; /* For PyCurses_InitScr */
/* For exception curses.error */
- PyCursesError = PyString_FromString("_curses.error");
+ PyCursesError = PyErr_NewException("_curses.error", NULL, NULL);
PyDict_SetItemString(d, "error", PyCursesError);
/* Make the version available */