Crash report

What happened?

MacOS began pushing out updates to XCode Command Line Tools to install 15.0 recently. Upon updating I began having issues with curses. This happens with the Python provided by Apple. I'm not aware of the best way to communicate this issue to Apple, hopefully someone here knows who to ping or is watching.

Save the below as curses-segfault.py:

import curses

def main(stdscr):
    stdscr.refresh()

curses.wrapper(main)

Run the script in zsh in MacOS Terminal via:

/usr/bin/python3 curses-segfault.py

An easy way to see if you got the update is via the terminal by running:

softwareupdate --history

CPython versions tested on:

3.9

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Output from running 'python -VV' on the command line:

python3 -VV Python 3.9.6 (default, Aug 11 2023, 19:44:49) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.0.40.1)]

Linked PRs

• gh-109617: fix ncurses incompatibility on macOS with Xcode 15 #111258