Python is supposed to be cross platform. This has been a major incompatibility issue between Windows and *nix and you think this patch, which has been ready for nearly 7 years now, should simply get discarded because the fix is available from pip?

I think there are two possible remedies to this:
 - Accept this patch.
 - Remove curses from the Python standard library for *nix (breaks backwards compatibility for *nix, but fixes compatibility between Windows and *nix going forward.)