In some environments (under screen, in a chroot) curses doesn't support
mouse events. This makes the test fail. Catch that case and don't run
the tests. Should make the debian/ubuntu buildbots that run in a chroot
work again.
Will backport to release24-maint.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index 126251e..dc2f20b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -204,11 +204,13 @@
curses.has_key(13)
if hasattr(curses, 'getmouse'):
- curses.mousemask(curses.BUTTON1_PRESSED)
- curses.mouseinterval(10)
- # just verify these don't cause errors
- m = curses.getmouse()
- curses.ungetmouse(*m)
+ (availmask, oldmask) = curses.mousemask(curses.BUTTON1_PRESSED)
+ # availmask indicates that mouse stuff not available.
+ if availmask != 0:
+ curses.mouseinterval(10)
+ # just verify these don't cause errors
+ m = curses.getmouse()
+ curses.ungetmouse(*m)
def unit_tests():
from curses import ascii