Steve Fink added the comment:
I'm running now (successfully) with a simpler patch, just changing it to parse
format 'i', but this patch is probably a bit safer.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44174/python-2.7.12-curses
New submission from Steve Fink:
When attempting to run |hg chistedit|, which uses the python curses module, I
am getting *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/python terminated
The problem is in PyCursesWindow_Box in _cursesmodule.c:
if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"ll;vertint,h