gh-87881: Document the result of curses inch() and getbkgd()#152488
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Explain the character/attribute bit layout and how to extract the parts (A_CHARTEXT and A_ATTRIBUTES bit-masks, pair_number() for the color pair), or use in_wch() to get a complexchar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…H-152488) (GH-152511) (GH-152514) Explain the character/attribute bit layout and how to extract the parts (A_CHARTEXT and A_ATTRIBUTES bit-masks, pair_number() for the color pair). (cherry picked from commit d831a69) (cherry picked from commit 0901331) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…H-152488) (GH-152511) (GH-152515) Explain the character/attribute bit layout and how to extract the parts (A_CHARTEXT and A_ATTRIBUTES bit-masks, pair_number() for the color pair). (cherry picked from commit d831a69) (cherry picked from commit 0901331) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The documentation for :meth:
curses.window.inchand :meth:curses.window.getbkgddescribed what they return but not how to use the packed value.Document the character/attribute bit layout and how to extract the parts -- the
A_CHARTEXTandA_ATTRIBUTESbit-masks and :func:~curses.pair_numberfor the color pair -- or :meth:~curses.window.in_wchto get a :class:~curses.complexcharwith them already separated.🤖 Generated with Claude Code