# 6.12 `curses` -- Terminal independant console handling

The `curses` module provides an interface to the curses Unix library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling.

While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, versions are available for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. The extension module has not been tested with all available versions of curses.

See Also:

Tutorial material on using curses with Python is available on the Python Web site as Andrew Kuchling's Curses Programming with Python, at http://www.python.org/doc/howto/curses/curses.html.

- 6.12.1 Constants and Functions
- 6.12.2 Window Objects