[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset b838cc3ff4e039af949c6a19bd896e98e944dcbe by Serhiy Storchaka (Chillar Anand) in branch 'master': bpo-18699: Corrected documentation for window.chgat in curses module (#1430) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b838cc3ff4e039af949c6a19bd896e

[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

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[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

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[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

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[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

Berker Peksag added the comment: I think this is a documentation issue. curses.chgat() documentation tries to describe different signatures in one place and some of these signatures change the behavior of the function. For example, curses.chgat() calls mvwchgat() when users pass y and x to it

[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

IronGrid added the comment: I get this error with 3.2.3, running Debian Stable. It's annoying because this error prevents curses apps from being able to highlight the current line. -- nosy: +IronGrid versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

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[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

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[issue18669] curses.chgat() moves cursor, documentation says it shouldn't

New submission from productivememberofsociety666: According to docs.python.org/2/library/curses.html#chgat (or any other version), curses.chgat() is not supposed to move the cursor at all. This is true if you don't give it x,y coordinates, but if you do, the cursor does in fact move to those c