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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add curses.scr_dump(), scr_restore(), scr_init() and scr_set()","articleBody":"The curses module can serialize a single window with `window.putwin()` / `curses.getwin()`, but it has no way to dump and restore the whole screen.  The four X/Open functions that do this are still missing:\n\n* `scr_dump(filename)` — write the current virtual screen to a file.\n* `scr_restore(filename)` — set the virtual screen to a dumped file; the next `doupdate()`/`refresh()` paints it.\n* `scr_init(filename)` — use a dump as the assumed current terminal contents (e.g. after another program drew the screen).\n* `scr_set(filename)` — combine `scr_restore()` and `scr_init()`.\n\nThese are the whole-screen counterpart of `putwin()`/`getwin()`.  Unlike those (which take a Python file object, mirroring C `putwin(WINDOW *, FILE *)`), the C `scr_*` functions are filename-based (they `fopen` internally), so the Python wrappers take a filename — a `str` or a path-like object.\n\nProposed API:\n\n    curses.scr_dump(filename)\n    curses.scr_restore(filename)\n    curses.scr_init(filename)\n    curses.scr_set(filename)\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-152261\n* gh-152340\n* gh-152390\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka","@type":"Person","name":"serhiy-storchaka"},"datePublished":"2026-06-26T10:26:41.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/152260/cpython/issues/152260"}