Branch merge

Doc/library/curses.rst

@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ The module :mod:`curses` defines the following functions:
 
    Instantiate the string *str* with the supplied parameters, where *str* should
    be a parameterized string obtained from the terminfo database.  E.g.
-   ``tparm(tigetstr("cup"), 5, 3)`` could result in ``'\033[6;4H'``, the exact
+   ``tparm(tigetstr("cup"), 5, 3)`` could result in ``b'\033[6;4H'``, the exact
    result depending on terminal type.
 
 

Lib/test/test_curses.py

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def module_funcs(stdscr):
     curses.tigetflag('hc')
     curses.tigetnum('co')
     curses.tigetstr('cr')
-    curses.tparm('cr')
+    curses.tparm(b'cr')
     curses.typeahead(sys.__stdin__.fileno())
     curses.unctrl('a')
     curses.ungetch('a')
@@ -264,6 +264,10 @@ def test_issue6243(stdscr):
     curses.ungetch(1025)
     stdscr.getkey()
 
+def test_issue10570():
+    b = curses.tparm(curses.tigetstr("cup"), 5, 3)
+    assert type(b) is bytes
+
 def main(stdscr):
     curses.savetty()
     try:
@@ -272,6 +276,7 @@ def main(stdscr):
         test_userptr_without_set(stdscr)
         test_resize_term(stdscr)
         test_issue6243(stdscr)
+        test_issue10570()
     finally:
         curses.resetty()
 

Lib/test/test_httpservers.py

@@ -259,8 +259,9 @@ class SimpleHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         with open(os.path.join(self.tempdir_name, 'index.html'), 'w') as f:
             response = self.request('/' + self.tempdir_name + '/')
             self.check_status_and_reason(response, 200)
-            if os.name == 'posix':
-                # chmod won't work as expected on Windows platforms
+            # chmod() doesn't work as expected on Windows, and filesystem
+            # permissions are ignored by root on Unix.
+            if os.name == 'posix' and os.geteuid() != 0:
                 os.chmod(self.tempdir, 0)
                 response = self.request(self.tempdir_name + '/')
                 self.check_status_and_reason(response, 404)
@@ -305,6 +306,9 @@ print("%%s, %%s, %%s" %% (form.getfirst("spam"), form.getfirst("eggs"),
                           form.getfirst("bacon")))
 """
 
+
+@unittest.skipIf(hasattr(os, 'geteuid') and os.geteuid() == 0,
+        "This test can't be run reliably as root (issue #13308).")
 class CGIHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
     class request_handler(NoLogRequestHandler, CGIHTTPRequestHandler):
         pass

Misc/NEWS

@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10570: curses.tigetstr() is now expecting a byte string, instead of
+  a Unicode string.
+
 - Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
 
 - Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of

Modules/_cursesmodule.c

@@ -2600,7 +2600,7 @@ PyCurses_tparm(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
     PyCursesSetupTermCalled;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s|iiiiiiiii:tparm",
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "y|iiiiiiiii:tparm",
                           &fmt, &i1, &i2, &i3, &i4,
                           &i5, &i6, &i7, &i8, &i9)) {
         return NULL;