Issue #10570: curses.putp() is now expecting a byte string, instead of a

Unicode string.

This is an incompatible change, but putp() is used to emit terminfo commands,
which are bytes strings, not Unicode strings.

Lib/test/test_curses.py

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ def module_funcs(stdscr):
     win = curses.newwin(5,5)
     win = curses.newwin(5,5, 1,1)
     curses.nl() ; curses.nl(1)
-    curses.putp('abc')
+    curses.putp(b'abc')
     curses.qiflush()
     curses.raw() ; curses.raw(1)
     curses.setsyx(5,5)
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ def test_issue6243(stdscr):
 def test_issue10570():
     b = curses.tparm(curses.tigetstr("cup"), 5, 3)
     assert type(b) is bytes
+    curses.putp(b)
 
 def main(stdscr):
     curses.savetty()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #10570: curses.tigetstr() is now expecting a byte string, instead of
-  a Unicode string.
+- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tigetstr() are now expecting a byte
+  string, instead of a Unicode string.
 
 - Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
 

Modules/_cursesmodule.c

@@ -2379,7 +2379,8 @@ PyCurses_Putp(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
     char *str;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"s;str", &str)) return NULL;
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"y;str", &str))
+        return NULL;
     return PyCursesCheckERR(putp(str), "putp");
 }